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Date:      Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:17:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
To:        "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, shovey@buffnet.net
Subject:   Re: "talk" does not work. Please help.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961208131253.200D-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <ABOubgoi21@vas.tomsk.su>

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> I do not think so. AFAIK localhost in FreeBSD cannot have an
> arbitrary address, only 127.0.0.1

It's a network interface, just like all the others. You can assign it an
alias or a completely new address. 

root@bitbucket:/root# ifconfig lo0 10.0.0.1
root@bitbucket:/root# ping 10.0.0.1
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.152 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.756 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.828 ms
^C
--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.756/1.912/2.152 ms
root@bitbucket:/root# ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1
root@bitbucket:/root# 



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