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Subject: Re: loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]
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On Wednesday 05 September 2007 11:48:12 Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> > > I did find it in /etc/default/rc.conf:
> > >
> > > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device
> > > configuration.
> >
> > I found the problem.  lo0 was not listed in network_interfaces in rc.conf
> > Adding it fixed the problem.
>
> Do you have this line in your /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
>
> network_interfaces="auto"       # List of network interfaces (or "auto").
>
Yes, I have that.