From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 18:37:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from napalm.plano.sterling.com (napalm.plano.sterling.com [208.24.125.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8D7157AC for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alan.edmonds@sterling.com) Received: from sterling.com (ras-0018.plano.sterling.com [10.1.48.127]) by napalm.plano.sterling.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA06111; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:33:29 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3862DB6A.9CCDD1C1@sterling.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:33:14 -0600 From: Alan Edmonds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harlan Stenn Cc: "Nawfal M. Rouyan" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: localhost doesn't work? References: <16373.945984069@brown.pfcs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I actually replaced the 'auto' with 'lo0' and that solved my problem. Perhaps this is the problem people are having with the install not enabling lo0. I'm not sure why the install set it to 'de0 auto'. BTW, ifconfig -l yields de0 lp0 tun0 sl0 ppp0 lo0 Thanks for the clarification. Alan Harlan Stenn wrote: > > rc.network says that if ${network_interfaces} is "auto" it will grab the > list of available interfaces from `ifconfig -l`. > > I don't think using "de0 auto" will do what you expect. > > Run "ifconfig -l" and see what it says. > > YTSL. > > H -- Alan Edmonds, KB5ZUY Sterling Software M/S 132 Phone: +1-972-801-6485 5800 Tennyson Pkwy. Email: alan.edmonds@sterling.com Plano, TX, USA 75024 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message