Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:34:51 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: gnn@neville-neil.com (George Neville-Neil) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgraph and the loopback? Message-ID: <200003090434.UAA79368@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200003081715.JAA92779@jchurch.meer.net> from George Neville-Neil at "Mar 8, 2000 09:15:40 am"
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George Neville-Neil writes: > I'm thinking of adding the loopback interface to the list of > interfaces that come up automagically (like the Ethernets) with > the kernel. Any reason I shouldn't do this? I want it so I can > play with the system on a laptop that sometimes has no ethernet in > it. Seems like a reasonable thing to do but... That should work fine.. a loopback interface acts pretty much just like an Ethernet interface but without the hardware. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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