Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:01:03 +0100 From: Jonathan Vaughan <jonathan@turnip.org.uk> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup Message-ID: <20000804090103.A333@mashed.turnip.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000803222436.B66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:24:36PM -0700 References: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> <20000804001656.C3360@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000804003808.A1307@mashed.turnip.org.uk> <20000803222436.B66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:24:36PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:38:08AM +0100, Jonathan Vaughan wrote: > > I thought the correct way was to have something like > > > > ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff" > > This is not the correct way. This is a Bad Idea. Don't give the > loopback any address but 127.0.0.1. That just being an alias for the loopbaak device. I also have ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1". Trawling through the mailing list archives, this was advised as what should be done. in linux I would set up a dummy interface for the IP address. -- Jonathan Vaughan jonathan@turnip.org.uk PGP Key ID: 0x0AF58107 http://home.clara.net/turnip/pgp.txt | jon@pgpkey.turnip.org.uk | keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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