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Subject: IPv4 loopback - solved
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Disregard - I found the 'network_interfaces' line of rc.conf was 
lacking lo0. I added it back in and it seems to be booting correctly.

Sorry for the bandwidth!

Keith

>While trying to configure ntp, I discovered that my IPv4 loopback 
>was not being configured. I can manually restart it with 'ifconfig 
>lo0 add 127.0.0.1', however, it does not survive a reboot.
>
>Here's the output of ipconfig following boot:
>
>rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         ether 00:08:54:dd:65:8d
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
>plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>
>and after manually configuring:
>
>rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         ether 00:08:54:dd:65:8d
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
>plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
>
>What do I need to configure to get it to come up at bootup? Any 
>thoughts as to why it disappears?
>(I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 stable, downloaded and installed about 3 wks ago).
>
>Keith
>(newcomer to FreeBSD)


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