From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 8 16:03:18 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA01562 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:03:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper18a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.85]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA01557 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA00241; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:02:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:02:23 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost Reply-To: jack 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 On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Victor A. Sudakov wrote: > > > In Windows NT there is a software emulator of an ethernet card. > > > You can assign an address to it and work as if you had a real > > > ethernet card. > > > > > > If someone could write a similar driver for FreeBSD it would be > > > just great. I wish I were a programmer myself. > > > > I believe thats what localhost is isnt it? > > I do not think so. AFAIK localhost in FreeBSD cannot have an > arbitrary address, only 127.0.0.1 Actually, it seems that it will accept whatever you put in /etc/hosts. Either another RFC `reserved' address, lo0:flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 172.16.16.1 netmask 0xffff0000 zeus:jack {2} ping localhost PING localhost (172.16.16.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 172.16.16.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.354 ms or an otherwise unused address from a valid class C, lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 205.160.242.254 netmask 0xffffff00 zeus:jack {2} ping localhost PING localhost (205.160.242.254): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 205.160.242.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.348 ms -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. 6 PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------