On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:08:52AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But this second configuration requires the network and will fail in > > the case that you have taken it offline. On laptops that is not a > > desireable situation. Even in the desktop environment there are cases > > You can solve that by adding the external address to the loopback interface: > > ip a a 192.168.65.5/32 dev lo
...and if you plug your laptop into a network that already uses 192.168.65.5 for another computer that you want to access? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>