Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
On 30/05/2006, at 10:29 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
Running that command returns this:
ifconfig: -inet: bad value
Bah! I'm on the road too much lately. No "dash"
before "inet" ...
here's the output
bsd-box# ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
bsd-box# ifconfig -a
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe08:e02a%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:e0:4c:08:e0:2a
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
In addition to Jorn's advice, check /etc/defaults/rc.conf. The
file should exist and have permissions like so:
$ ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 31735 May 15 18:48 /etc/defaults/rc.conf
and it should have the following line within:
$ grep lo0 /etc/defaults/rc.conf
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration.
If all these aren't true, that would explain why the loopback isn't
configured.
Kevin Kinsey
--
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