From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 14:45:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322AD14DD4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ralph@tinynet.hamilton.on.ca) Received: from starlight.tinynet.hamilton.on.ca (ppp18484.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.164]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25211; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ralph@localhost) by starlight.tinynet.hamilton.on.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA32040; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:43:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ralph@starlight.tinynet.hamilton.on.ca) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:43:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Ralph Strohschein To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: network routing problems at boot... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ralph Strohschein wrote: > > > Why does your loopback device have the 10.0.0.1 address? > > This is normal, 10.0.0.1 is the local IP anyway, might as well speed it up > by rouging thorugh lo. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org I can't believe I didn't notice that as being normal, but sure enough, netstat -nr on my box does indeed show my de0 address going through the loopback device. That's what I get for replying to messages after very little sleep, well after brain rot has set in :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message