From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 8 13:20:08 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA24159 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bitbucket.edmweb.com (bitbucket.edmweb.com [204.244.190.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA24153 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:20:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bitbucket.edmweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00514; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:17:07 -0800 Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:17:02 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Reid To: "Victor A. Sudakov" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, shovey@buffnet.net Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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#