Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:33:42 -0500 From: Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net> To: "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NT4 ISP Message-ID: <19970616183342.11874@peeper.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199706161616.AAA03879@vas.tomsk.su>; from Victor A. Sudakov on Tue, Jun 17, 1997 at 12:16:36AM %2B0800 References: <19970615064922.52723@peeper.my.domain> <199706161616.AAA03879@vas.tomsk.su>
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Well first I misunderstood that you had alias'd lo0, I thought you had used ifconfig for tun0. Secondly I was going to say that it sounded like a good idea to alias lo0 with your hostname but I tried it and it did*not* work with ppp. As I said before, I ended up with a 'my addr' of 192.168.0.1 and of course the ppp session failed. Not sure what to say ??? Tom On Tue, Jun 17, 1997 at 12:16:36AM +0800, Victor A. Sudakov wrote: > Tom Jackson wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 11:08:56PM +0800, Victor A. Sudakov wrote: > > > Tom Jackson wrote: > > > > > > > I have dynamic assigned address. My /etc/hosts file has only the loopback > > > > address, 127.0.0.1, and nothing else (I have no ethernet card). If I use > > > > anything there with my hostname, my isp will try to use that address and > > > > the connection will fail. > > > > > > Why should he try to use that address? And how is he going to know about it, > > > anyway? > > > > > > > Well for one reason, that is the default standard everyone starts with. You > > only muck it up when you start modifying the file :) > > Sorry, I did not understand this phrase. I mean if you assign another IP > address to your lo0 interface, the ISP will not know about this and this > will cause no problems at all. > > > > > > > This is something I wish somebody would clearup. > > > > > > I also have a dynamically assigned address. However, I have in my /etc/hosts > > > file: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > 192.168.1.1 vas.tomsk.su vas > > > > I think maybe you have an ethernet card, yes? > > No, I have none. > > > > > > > > > And in my /etc/rc.local: > > > > > > /sbin/ifconfig lo0 inet 192.168.1.1 alias > > > > > > > Everything I've seen posted recommends against using this assignment. I'm > > What is the reason of recommending against this assignment? What is wrong > with it? Note the "alias" parameter I use. Thus, lo0 has two addresses. > > > glad it works for you though. > > > > > It works fine, I can ping vas.tomsk.su even if I am offline. It does not > > > prevent me from using ppp because 192.168.1.1 is associated with lo0 and has > > > nothing to do with tun0. > > > > > > > I'm not sure I understand this. I thought the 127 address was the loopback > > address. > > Certainly. In my case, the lo0 interface has two addresses: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.1.1 vas.tomsk.su vas > > I can ping both 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.1 > > -- > Victor Sudakov > http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm
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