Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:02:23 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, shovey@buffnet.net Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.95.961208184234.187A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <ABOubgoi21@vas.tomsk.su>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Victor A. Sudakov wrote:
> > > In Windows NT there is a software emulator of an ethernet card.
> > > You can assign an address to it and work as if you had a real
> > > ethernet card.
> > >
> > > If someone could write a similar driver for FreeBSD it would be
> > > just great. I wish I were a programmer myself.
> >
> > I believe thats what localhost is isnt it?
>
> I do not think so. AFAIK localhost in FreeBSD cannot have an
> arbitrary address, only 127.0.0.1
Actually, it seems that it will accept whatever you put in /etc/hosts.
Either another RFC `reserved' address,
lo0:flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 172.16.16.1 netmask 0xffff0000
zeus:jack {2} ping localhost
PING localhost (172.16.16.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.16.16.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.354 ms
or an otherwise unused address from a valid class C,
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 205.160.242.254 netmask 0xffffff00
zeus:jack {2} ping localhost
PING localhost (205.160.242.254): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 205.160.242.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.348 ms
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