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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:00:11 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Loopback device dillema
Message-ID:  <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com>; from hiten@unixdaemons.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500
References:  <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com>

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and
> if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopback
> device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a
> module.

What is gained by making loopback default?  It's true that you need a
loopback device, but that's a bug not a feature.

-- Brooks

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