Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:17:02 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com> To: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, shovey@buffnet.net Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961208131253.200D-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com> In-Reply-To: <ABOubgoi21@vas.tomsk.su>
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> I do not think so. AFAIK localhost in FreeBSD cannot have an > arbitrary address, only 127.0.0.1 It's a network interface, just like all the others. You can assign it an alias or a completely new address. root@bitbucket:/root# ifconfig lo0 10.0.0.1 root@bitbucket:/root# ping 10.0.0.1 PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.152 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.756 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.828 ms ^C --- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1.756/1.912/2.152 ms root@bitbucket:/root# ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 root@bitbucket:/root#
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