From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 15 17:56:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BFDF1518A for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@otenet.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr364-a110.otenet.gr [195.167.112.206]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA02195 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 03:56:33 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA10543; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:59:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network / configuration problems References: <015e01bf2fbb$4a9e2050$84f2e926@openlinksw.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 16 Nov 1999 02:59:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Stephen Schadt"'s message of "Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:46:44 -0500" Message-ID: <86n1sfxncj.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Stephen Schadt" writes: > ifconfig_xl0 inet netmask > network-interfaces "xl0 lo0" > > I don't know why the "lo0" is in there... Unless you don't plan on using your own machine for tcp/ip connections, you need the lo0 interface. I'm not sure if anything will break by removing it, but I'm almost convinced that something will break without even trying it. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message