Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:11:18 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Jeff" <jasapp@facevalue.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: loopback interface Message-ID: <009601bf0b4d$aa745040$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <19990930072906.A21654@wallace.resnet.mtu.edu>
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Hi,
Check out this page, it will tell you about the loopback interface:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/errata.html
Have Fun...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff <jasapp@facevalue.org>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 7:29 AM
Subject: loopback interface
> I have a small problem.... I've been running Linux for the last
> couple of years and two or three weeks ago, I decided to try the latest
> FreeBSD.
>
> I had just finished up installing fetchmail, and I noticed that when it
tried
> to hand it off to localhost it got an unreachable message. Sure
> enough, when I ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 my packets make it all the way
> to a router in Dallas.
>
> I have the loopback interface built into the kernel, and I can see the
> interface when I do a netstat -r. It isn't up when I do that, nor does
> it have an ip assigned to it. I've brought the interface (lo0) up
> and given it 127.0.0.1, and then I add a route like this.
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1
> But that still didn't work.
>
> I've dug through mounds and mounds of HOWTOs, FAQs, and man pages. Yet I
don't
> find anything on adding this route or how to do it. Is this something
> that is setup by default and I've messed it up some how? If so, where
> is file that adds the routes on startup?
> Thanks in advanced.
>
> Jeff
>
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