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From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
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Subject: RE: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:08:06 +1200
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:: and note that the only ipv4 address listed is '127.0.0.1'.

How come it works under Linux?

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:652472 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:652472 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

pts/2 juha@vimfuego:/usr/share/services$ ping 127.0.0.2
PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2) from 127.0.0.2 : 56(84) bytes of data.
Warning: time of day goes back, taking countermeasures.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=536 usec
64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=83 usec

But FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE:

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

bash-2.05$ ping 127.0.0.2
PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
^C
--- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

-- 
Juha


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