From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 4:51:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (mailer.cse.iitd.ac.in [202.141.68.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFABC37B65D for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 04:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from cse.iitd.ernet.in (root@poorvi.cse.iitd.ernet.in [10.20.3.12]) by desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA04684; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:24:38 +0530 Received: from localhost (csu96154@localhost) by cse.iitd.ernet.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01712; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:24:34 +0530 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: csu96154 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:24:34 +0530 (IST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan X-Sender: csu96154@localhost.localdomain To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: ifconfig error In-Reply-To: <20010219145322.C29699@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Why are you assigining an Ip on lo0?? I've never done it and I am not sure > how it helps. Oh generally. I just wanted to learn and fool a bit on such things, and since I don't have any net access or any other cards etc, I thought I'd try assigning an IP on lo2 itself. Only I didn't think it could create some problems or not be right. > Rakhesh> > Rakhesh> BTW, I do not exactly understand what you mean by saying I can > Rakhesh> reconfigure lo0? > ^^^ > I said CANNOT > > Rakhesh> Do u mean I can't assign an IP to it, or something else ? > > That is what i think but I stand corrected. Yes ... I meant CANNOT. :) Regards. __ Rakhesh Sasidharan rakhesh at cse.iitd.ac.in To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message