Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:43:23 +0000 From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loopback won't enable automatically Message-ID: <200709051743.24064.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <20070905161207.GB20668@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200709050147.47555.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <20070905161207.GB20668@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wednesday 05 September 2007 16:12:07 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:47:47AM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one > > machine (it is a laptop): > > > > ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > > > > Then everything is fine. > > > > I added ifconfig_lo0="127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0" to /etc/rc.conf > > but for unknown reasons it now looks like this and I still need to set > > lo0 manually after reboots: > > Have you tried setting network_interfaces? Here's the relevant part of > my rc.conf: > > # Network settings > network_interfaces="lo0 rl0 rl1" > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" > ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.0.0.150/24 polling" > ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168.0.1/24 polling" Yes, that is how I fixed the problem, but I don't know why the problem occurred in the first place, since in /etc/default/rc.conf I have: network_interfaces="auto" Setting network_interfaces="lo0 vr0" in /etc/rc.conf fixed the problem thanks > > HTH, > Roland
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