Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

[Kenneth Culver]

> why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ???
> seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or
> ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a
> internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me.
> --
>
> I wouldn't; I was using that as an example.  I would want to create a
> second, separate loopback interface, much in the same way you can do on a
> Cisco and then route traffic across both interfaces to the loopback.  All of
> the addresses would be valid.
>
That still doesn't seem like something you'd want to do. It doesn't really
gain you anything that I can think of.

Ken