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Date:      16 Nov 1999 02:59:56 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: network / configuration problems
Message-ID:  <86n1sfxncj.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: "Stephen Schadt"'s message of "Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:46:44 -0500"
References:  <015e01bf2fbb$4a9e2050$84f2e926@openlinksw.com>

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"Stephen Schadt" <sschadt@openlinksw.com> writes:

> ifconfig_xl0 inet <ip> netmask <netmask>
>   network-interfaces "xl0 lo0"
> 
> I don't know why the "lo0" is in there...

Unless you don't plan on using your own machine for tcp/ip connections,
you need the lo0 interface.  I'm not sure if anything will break by
removing it, but I'm almost convinced that something will break without
even trying it.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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