From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 07:02:52 2003 Return-Path: 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 E62A537B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [64.8.50.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230B343F85 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:02:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.161.217]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030618140251.ULQO1347.mta10.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:02:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF0710B.9040201@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:02:51 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shantanu Mahajan References: <20030617194009.K99305@malkav.snowmoon.com> <20030618134039.GA190@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20030618134039.GA190@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking/Routing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:02:53 -0000 Shantanu Mahajan wrote: > +-- Jaime [freebsd] [17-06-03 19:42 -0400]: > | On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Bryan W. Maxwell wrote: > | > Im trying to set up my home system as 192.168.2.0, but somehow the local > | > loop lo0 is still on 127.0.0.1. > | > | This is by definition. lo0 shouldn't ever be anything but > | 127.0.0.1. > > lo0 can be anything between 127.0.0.1 and 127.255.255.255 I don't want to argue the fine points of IP protocol. The _point_ is that if you read the original poster's message, he's not yet at a level of understanding where he should be changing the IP of his loopback device. Let's not throw the entire pile of RFCs at him all at once. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com