--On Thursday, March 23, 2006 00:08:42 +0100 albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:39:21 -0600
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What would cause this?
ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
--- cut ---
ifconfig lo0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
You're right. After doing this:
ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 up, it works fine. Wonder why it's not coming up
normally? /etc/default/rc.conf has it in there:
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration.
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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