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+Sometimes it is helpful to run more than one servald instance on a given machine
+for debugging purposes.  To make this easier, there is a dummy interface driver
+that servald knows about.  To use it:
+
+1. create an empty file, e.g., dummynet0, somewhere convenient
+
+2. For each servald instance you wish to use it, set the interface specification to include the dummynet file. Use a specification like "+>pathtodummynetfile", where pathtodummynetfile is the relative path from the instance path of that servald instance to the dummynet file.  For example, you might run:
+   % servald config set interfaces "+eth0,+>../dummynet0"
+
+3. Run each servald instance.  They should now use the dummy network.