From 7c4329462e411c110b8dded92cc4b0d935e1e95d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:12:48 +0200
Subject: Add a connection type for dummy interfaces

---
 src/lib/connections/README |  3 +++
 src/lib/connections/dummy  | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/lib/connections/dummy

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/lib/connections/README b/src/lib/connections/README
index db840d6..6d8db9b 100644
--- a/src/lib/connections/README
+++ b/src/lib/connections/README
@@ -26,3 +26,6 @@ available. The readily sourced files are:
 
 Here, <profile> is the profile file specifying the desired network
 configuration.
+
+A simple example of a connection file is that of the dummy connection
+type.
diff --git a/src/lib/connections/dummy b/src/lib/connections/dummy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..879fc92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/connections/dummy
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Contributed by: João Valverde <joao.valverde@ist.utl.pt>
+
+. "$SUBR_DIR/ip"
+
+declare -ag BindsToInterfaces
+
+dummy_up() {
+    if is_interface "$Interface"; then
+        report_error "Interface '$Interface' already exists"
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    ip link add "$Interface" type dummy
+
+    bring_interface_up "$Interface"
+    ip_set
+}
+
+dummy_down() {
+    ip_unset
+    bring_interface_down "$Interface"
+    ip link del "$Interface"
+}
+
+
+# vim: ft=sh ts=4 et sw=4:
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