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Subject: Re: couldn't bind to local address
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On Sunday 21 May 2006 13:53, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-May-21 12:04:10 +0800, David Xu wrote:
> >	struct sockaddr_in addr;
>
> ...
>
> >	addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
> >	addr.sin_port = htons(9000);
> >	addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
>
> It's a good idea to assign sin_len as well.  And, ideally, you would
> bzero the structure first.
>
> On Sun, 2006-May-21 12:34:30 +0800, David Xu wrote:
> >I am trying it on -CURRENT, and found lo0 does not have an address, what
> > can cause this ?
>
> There should be an ifconfig_lo0 in /etc/defaults/rc.conf which causes lo0
> to be initialised via /etc/rc.d/netif and /etc/network.subr.  Do you get
> any errors during boot?

in fact, finally I found sysinstall only put nve0 in variable
network_interfaces, this causes lo0 does not have an address assigned.

David Xu