loopback won't enable automatically

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:47:47AM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> 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:

Have you tried setting network_interfaces? Here's the relevant part of
my rc.conf:

# Network settings
network_interfaces="lo0 rl0 rl1"
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.0.0.150/24 polling"
ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168.0.1/24 polling"

HTH,
  Roland
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