On 16-Jun-99 Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 16-Jun-99 John Baldwin wrote:
>>  Whoops.. just ifconfig de0.  Have you tried using the interface?  We use
>>  for a lab I help run, and 'arp -a' on the clients does not show an entry
>>  for
>>  the local de0 card they have installed, but they work fine regardless.  Do
>>  have a route for 127.0.0.1 in your route table (netstat -rn), there should
>>  one that just points to itself so, AFAIK, it shouldn't be arp'ing for that
>>  address.
> 
> Well I have a netstat -nr from when it was using DHCP and when it wasn't and
> the only difference is the 'Refs' for 127.0.0.1 was 3 for DHCP and 2 for
> static.

Hmm.  Here's what I have on one of our clients:

# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif Expire
default            xxx.xx.184.1       UGSc        2        2      de0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2       10      lo0
xxx.xx.184         link#1             UC          0        0      de0
xxx.xx.184.66      127.0.0.1          UGHS        0        0      lo0
xxx.xx.184.255     ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWb       1      896      de0

As you can see, only 2 refs for 127.0.0.1.  Note that there is a route for
de0's IP: xxx.xx.184.66 to 127.0.0.1.  Do you have lo0 configured properly (is
lo0 in network_interfaces in /etc/rc.conf and ifconfig_lo0 in either
/etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf)?

> The interface works OK for somethings, but for example I can't run 'esd', and
> whenever I try and ping the address assigned to the ethernet card I get 
> Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate
> llinfo
> Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for
> 127.0.0.1rt
> 
> every ping packet sent.

Don't have esd to test with, but I can ping it's own IP fine.  I'd be willing
to bet, though, that esd not working is a symptom of the same problem since a
client talking to a server on the same host usually uses the lo0 interface.  It
really sounds like your lo0 isn't configured.

What version of FreeBSD are you running?

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