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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:55:48 -0800
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>
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Subject: Re: Routing problem 2 ISA NICs on one machine
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:28:53AM -0500, Mark B. Withers wrote:
> Hey folks!
> 
> I was wondering if anybody has had any experience with the routing of
> 2 ISA nics on one FreeBSD machine?
> 
> One of my working collegues said that I should have a separate
> loopbacl address for each NIC interface as I've tested it before with
> ping (each nick plugged to a different port of a hub) and when I ping
> the second nic's ip address, the first nic responds! :|
> 
> My co-worker recommended something like this:
> 
> loopback for ep0: 127.0.0.1
> loopback for ep1: 127.1.0.1
> ....
> loopback for ep2: 127.2.0.1 
> 
> ...
> 
> and so forth.
> 
> Is this correct? If so how do I make it so? By editing /etc/rc.conf ?

No. The loopback interface is an independent interface and has nothing
to do with any Ethernet devices. Adding another loopback, say lo1,
has nothing to do with any ep(4) devices.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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