Re: [9front] Loopback device

[Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>]

Hi hiro,

hiro writes:
> i think the main use case would be something like what tc is used for
> on linux: simulating a network link with output buffers,
> fragmentation, packet drop, delay.
>
> somebody might use it's flow-control for creating a bit of fairness on
> a saturated slow link...

Ok.

> you're right that it isn't currently being built by default:
>
> cpu% cd /sys/src/9/port
> cpu% g λ
> devloopback.c:718: 	L'λ',
> cpu% g loopback|grep -v devloopback.c
> sdloop.c:2:  * sd loopback driver,
>
> also try cat master in same directory.

I see.  Thanks for that pointer.

Thank you very much,
benny