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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Dan Busarow wrote:

>> Is there something inherently wrong in that ?
>
>No, but you also need to manually add an arp entry when the alias
>is added to lo0 instead of an enet interface.

I've never had to do that, and it appears to work fine.

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