who is "jmc" in the header? can someone cc him? or the people who are doing the
doc? :)
Many thanks.
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 at 3:28 PM
> From: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyz...@talsever.com>
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: /etc/netstart - order of operations (lo vs physical interfaces)
>
> A read of the script itself shows loopback initialized prior to
> hardware interfaces, at least in 6.2 (haven't upgraded yet).
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:21:54 -0400, Gabriel Guzman wrote:
> > Just a quick clarification, lo(4) says that the loopback interface
> > should be configured last, and /etc/netstart seems to support this
> > but netstart(8) says that the loopback interface is configured `before`
> > physical interfaces:
>
> Date in the man page for lo(4) is 2013. I'm guessing that the network
> system has moved on since then, and it's actually the lo(4) source
> that's out of date.
>
> Or, possibly, the netstart authors aren't aware of the potential
> problems, so started initializing loopback devices first, and ought to
> change things.
>
> :-)
>
> Amy!
> --
> Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.com
> There's someone in my head, but it's not me.
> -- Pink Floyd
>
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