From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 7 19:07:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A00716DF12 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:40:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [209.167.58.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC23B43D45 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:40:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 52809 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Jun 2006 16:40:13 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(209.167.16.15):. Processed in 13.62987 secs); 07 Jun 2006 16:40:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xzibit) (209.167.16.15) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) SMTP; 7 Jun 2006 16:39:59 -0000 From: "Steve Bertrand" To: Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:42:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <69cd51de50f2e39fbdc605d214cc5026@pacific.net.au> Thread-Index: AcaKP6tpPeGZEjiiS8u5y6MmXT05cwAEXw7g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <114969839967552745@pearl.ibctech.ca> Message-Id: <20060607164014.EC23B43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: Subject: RE: troubleshooting network settings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:07:03 -0000 > > Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ > be set up > > correctly. > > > > `ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0` ?? > > > > If that fixes it, then we have to figure out *why* it's not being > > doing automatically. Problem during init/rc, most likely ... weird. > > I've not had time to address this problem for a week. Going > through all the advice again I found that this advice is > good. That fixes the problem. Any pointers on getting it done > automatically? Is the following line in /etc/defaults/rc.conf? ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. If not, add it there, or simply in /etc/rc.conf Steve