1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" From: @(#)lo.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 29.\" 30.Dd May 25, 2002 31.Dt DISC 4 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm disc 35.Nd software discard network interface 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Cd "device disc" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm 41interface is a software discard mechanism which may be 42used for performance analysis and/or software testing. 43As with other network interfaces, the discard interface must have 44network addresses assigned for each address family with which it is to be used. 45These addresses 46may be set or changed with the 47.Dv SIOCSIFADDR 48.Xr ioctl 2 . 49.Pp 50Each 51.Nm 52interface is created at runtime using interface cloning. 53This is 54most easily done with the 55.Xr ifconfig 8 56.Cm create 57command or using the 58.Va cloned_interfaces 59variable in 60.Xr rc.conf 5 . 61.Sh SEE ALSO 62.Xr inet 4 , 63.Xr intro 4 64.\" .Xr ns 4 65.Sh HISTORY 66The 67.Nm 68device appears to have been derived from the 69.Xr lo 4 70device around the time of 71.Bx 4.4 . 72This manpage was adapted from 73.Xr lo 4 74and first appeared in 75.Fx 5.0 . 76