Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:50:06 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> To: "'Nik Clayton'" <nik@freebsd.org>, "'Kevin Oberman'" <oberman@es.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <006301c1448a$78fa4dd0$0a01a8c0@den2> In-Reply-To: <20010924000608.C1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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:: On a related note (I drag this out periodically), why does :: the interface :: intialisation code not add a network route for 127/8? :: :: See the thread that starts :: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=502857+0+archive/2000/freeb sd-hackers/20000402.freebsd-hackers Windows 2000 appears to do so: ======================================================================== === Active Routes: Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 192.168.1.10 1 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.10 1 192.168.1.10 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.10 1 224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.10 1 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.10 1 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.254 But then, it routes in a manner that's errr... kind of eccentric. ;-) I thought about some of the things mentioned in that thread, and having the ability to use some of the 127/8 addresses could actually be useful. Is it possible to create aliases for the loopback interface? -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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