From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 01:48:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC4616A41B for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from mx-outbound01.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [205.210.42.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAE113C458 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:48:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from lilypad.shadypond.com (69-12-173-117.static.humboldt1.com [69.12.173.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx-outbound01.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F0E8105 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:47:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ripple.shadypond.com (ripple.shadypond.com [192.168.1.13]) by lilypad.shadypond.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FCFB83C for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Pollywog To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709050147.47555.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: loopback won't enable automatically X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:48:30 -0000 I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything is fine. I added ifconfig_lo0="127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0" to /etc/rc.conf but for unknown reasons it now looks like this and I still need to set lo0 manually after reboots: ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0" Any ideas? I am running FreeBSD 7