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On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, 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

	True.  But it can't be 192.168.2.0, which is what the original
poster was attempting to do.  :)

							Jaime