From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 24 10:09:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25510 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA25505 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id BAA02577; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 01:09:14 +0800 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id WAA18759; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:09:41 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199706241409.WAA18759@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: NT4 ISP To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:09:41 +0800 (TSD) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199706172121.PAA26237@xmission.xmission.com> from "Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC" at "Jun 17, 97 03:21:46 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > > And in my /etc/rc.local: > > > > /sbin/ifconfig lo0 inet 192.168.1.1 alias > > [...] > > 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. > > But it really didn't add any value. You can simply achieve the same > result by adding your "hostname" as an alias to the standard loopback > address in /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost vas.tomsk.su > > Now you can ping vas.tomsk.su, it will resolve to the the standard loopback > address, and you don't need to create a virtual network that isn't there. I have been experimenting with this for a while and this idea turned out to be a bad one. A "brain fart", as you would put it ;-) I had to return to my original setup using the alias on lo0. One of the immediate problems your suggested setup caused was that tin would begin to put "user@localhost" instead of "user@vas.tomsk.su" into the From: header of usenet messages I post. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm