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From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
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Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:01:48PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> writes:
>=20
> > I thought about some of the things mentioned in that thread, and having
> > the ability to use some of the 127/8 addresses could actually be useful.
> > Is it possible to create aliases for the loopback interface?
>=20
> I'm not sure this is relevant, but I wondered if the KERNCONF syntax
> "pseudo-device  loop  [count]" holds like it does for
> "pseudo-device  ppp  [count]", to create, say, a "lo1" device, but
> there's no loop(4) man page like there is a ppp(4) man page.
>=20
> (Anyone want to write a loop(4) man page?  I don't.)
>=20

lo(4)

--=20
Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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