Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:40:57 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lo0 not starting on boot Message-ID: <3AC2CAE7FC658D8EBA589F4F@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060323195534.GB25560@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <FAE07A50EBD6BB365C5FDD88@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20060323195534.GB25560@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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--==========FE80868086CCC8DA9ECB========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:55:34 -0800 Brooks Davis=20 <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:07:36AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> In 6.0 SECURITY, what starts up lo0? It's not starting by default, and >> /etc/rc.d/netif has no effect on the interface. I *believe* this is the >> cause of a problem I'm having with xinerama, but I can't seem to figure >> out how to get the loopback to come up on boot. Any help would be >> appreciated. >> >> I already have the following in /etc/rc.conf: >> network_interfaces=3D"lo0 bge0" >> ifconfig_lo0=3D"inet 127.0.0.1" > > The second line should be unncessicary since it's already in > /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Unless you have a good reason for it, I'd > drop the first list as well. It's quite unnecessicary in most cases. > There's clearly something weirdly broked on your system. > Yes, and I found it. There was a second instance of network_interfaces=20 farther down in the /etc/rc.conf file. It only listed the bge0 interface,=20 and I'm certain it's being installed by a port. I found the same problem=20 on three boxes but not on two others. I'm looking for the cause of the=20 problem now. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========FE80868086CCC8DA9ECB==========--
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