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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:06:32 -0500
From:      Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Loopback device dillema
Message-ID:  <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com> <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote:
> 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.

Right, I do not have a problem with that, but that just means someone
needs to fix that in netinet/if_ether.c, and netinet/igmp.c.

-- 
Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org)
http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/

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