Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 23:11:01 +0700 From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, steve@edmweb.com Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <ABLe3ho8C0@vas.tomsk.su> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961208131253.200D-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>
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> > I do not think so. AFAIK localhost in FreeBSD cannot have an > > arbitrary address, only 127.0.0.1 > > It's a network interface, just like all the others. You can assign it an > alias or a completely new address. > > root@bitbucket:/root# ifconfig lo0 10.0.0.1 > root@bitbucket:/root# ping 10.0.0.1 > PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.152 ms Thank you very much for your advice. Now look what I have done. On my machine, at boot time the address 127.0.0.1 is associated with lo0, the address 10.0.0.1 is not associated with any interface. Therefore "ping 127.0.0.1" works while "ping 10.0.0.1" does not work. Then I say: vas# ifconfig lo0 inet 10.0.0.1 alias FreeBSD says: vas# ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists And after that both "ping 127.0.0.1" and "ping 10.0.0.1" begin to work!!!! "talk" also works!!! Great! I would be absolutely happy if I could get an answer to 2 more questions: 1. What does this "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" message mean? Is it an error? 2. How can I assign the 10.0.0.1 alias to lo0 automatically on startup? I do not like the idea of issuing this command manually after each reboot. Shall I put it into some kind of startup file? Any ideas? Thank you very much in advance. --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912
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