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To: "Chris F." <theta@gte.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and dial-up accounts 
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:37:53 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I am using User Process PPP to dial my ISP and establish a PPP connection.
> For some reason, when I dial in and telnet to localhost (or 127.0.0.1), I
> connect the the Ascend Max router into which I dial.  What can I change to
> make the system recognise itself as localhost?

What does your routing table look like (netstat -rn) ?  Have you 
removed the "lo0" bit in "network_interfaces" in /etc/{sysconfig,rc.co
nf} ?

> Thanks
> 

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