Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-06-11 Thread Len Conrad
/etc/hosts : ::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost /etc/defaults/rc.conf : ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. ... but ifconfig always shows no inet: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 s

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-06-11 Thread Yuri Pankov
Len Conrad wrote: /etc/hosts : ::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost /etc/defaults/rc.conf : ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. ... but ifconfig always shows no inet: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe8

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-06-11 Thread Len Conrad
and we can do this, too: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up then ifconfig shows: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 thanks Len _

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-06-11 Thread Len Conrad
/etc/hosts : ::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost /etc/defaults/rc.conf : ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. ... but ifconfig always shows no inet: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-03-18 Thread Glen Barber
Andrew Falanga said: > HI, > > On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being assigned > to > the lo0 interface. What would cause this? I've looked at his configs and > they're the same as on my system (obviously something is differ

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Feb 17, 2008 1:14 PM, Dominique Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Feb 16, 2008 6:41 PM, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HI, > > > > On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being > assig

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-02-17 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On Feb 16, 2008 6:41 PM, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > > On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being assigned to > the lo0 interface. What would cause this? I've looked at his configs and > they're the sam

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-02-17 Thread James
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:41 -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: > HI, > > On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being assigned > to > the lo0 interface. What would cause this? I've looked at his configs and > they're the same as on my sy

IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, On my father's computer there isn't an IPv4 loopback address being assigned to the lo0 interface. What would cause this? I've looked at his configs and they're the same as on my system (obviously something is different, but I don't know what). I see in his

Re: IPv4 loopback - solved

2007-03-19 Thread Keith E. Brandt, M.D.
Disregard - I found the 'network_interfaces' line of rc.conf was lacking lo0. I added it back in and it seems to be booting correctly. unless you are sure you need the 'network_interfaces' line in rc.conf I would comment it out. the default value for it in 6.2 is 'auto' and I have never seen th

Re: IPv4 loopback

2007-03-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 19 March 2007 04:59, Keith E. Brandt, M.D. wrote: > While trying to configure ntp, I discovered that my IPv4 loopback was > not being configured. I can manually restart it with 'ifconfig lo0 > add 127.0.0.1', however, it does not survive a reboot. > > Here

Re: IPv4 loopback - solved

2007-03-18 Thread Kevin Downey
On 3/18/07, Keith E. Brandt, M.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Disregard - I found the 'network_interfaces' line of rc.conf was lacking lo0. I added it back in and it seems to be booting correctly. unless you are sure you need the 'network_interfaces' line in rc.conf I would comment it out. the d

IPv4 loopback

2007-03-18 Thread Keith E. Brandt, M.D.
While trying to configure ntp, I discovered that my IPv4 loopback was not being configured. I can manually restart it with 'ifconfig lo0 add 127.0.0.1', however, it does not survive a reboot. Here's the output of ipconfig following boot: rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options

IPv4 loopback - solved

2007-03-18 Thread Keith E. Brandt, M.D.
Disregard - I found the 'network_interfaces' line of rc.conf was lacking lo0. I added it back in and it seems to be booting correctly. Sorry for the bandwidth! Keith While trying to configure ntp, I discovered that my IPv4 loopback was not being configured. I can manually resta