Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:40:12 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7? Message-ID: <44ablefys3.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20080304033914.hbevsjq9gkc0o4os@webmail.1command.com> (Chris H.'s message of "Tue\, 04 Mar 2008 03\:39\:14 -0800") References: <200803040619.m246Jbja018523@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20080304000320.msp5bfrytc0wsowg@webmail.1command.com> <1204625690.2126.181.camel@localhost> <20080304024831.fh4h1s3hggg444c0@webmail.1command.com> <20080304110042.GB84355@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080304033914.hbevsjq9gkc0o4os@webmail.1command.com>
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"Chris H." <chris#@1command.com> writes: > Yes, adding an entry in /etc/rc.conf that provides 254 IP's now > reveals: > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 > scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 > > as opposed to: 0xffffffff. Let's peel this issue back to the basics. This does *not* have 254 IP addresses on that interface. The interface still has only one address on that interface. There are 254 other addresses on the subnet, but only one of them belongs to your machine. If you want the machine to answer to 127.0.0.2, you still need to add it separately.
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