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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:38:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
To:        "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net>
Cc:        'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration
Message-ID:  <20030807093820.S47519@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
In-Reply-To: <004001c35c8d$f64fb9b0$40af9240@MKSSONY>
References:  <004001c35c8d$f64fb9b0$40af9240@MKSSONY>

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> 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



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