Networking/Routing

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Jun 18 07:02:53 PDT 2003


Shantanu Mahajan wrote:
> +-- Jaime [freebsd] [17-06-03 19:42 -0400]:
> | On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Bryan W. Maxwell wrote:
> | > Im trying to set up my home system as 192.168.2.0, but somehow the local
> | > loop lo0 is still on 127.0.0.1.
> | 
> | 	This is by definition.  lo0 shouldn't ever be anything but
> | 127.0.0.1.  
> 
> 	lo0 can be anything between 127.0.0.1 and 127.255.255.255

I don't want to argue the fine points of IP protocol.

The _point_ is that if you read the original poster's message, he's
not yet at a level of understanding where he should be changing the
IP of his loopback device.

Let's not throw the entire pile of RFCs at him all at once.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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