On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:11:30 -0700, Jeffrey J. Nonken wrote: > Not knowing what else to do, figuring I had nothing to lose, I > configured it: > > aphrodite# ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 aphrodite# > ifconfig fxp0: <snip> > plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 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 aphrodite# ping > localhost > PING localhost.wyndow.reality (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes > from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.114 ms
This still seemed wrong. I've never had to have the loopback interface in the rc.conf before. And sure enough, there was an ifconfig_lo0 in etc/defaults/rc.conf. So why didn't it work without one in etc/rc.conf? And I still had a daemon complaining at boot that it couldn't use the port it needed. I'd used Webmin once (during our recent move) to change from DHCP to fixed IP, mostly because I couldn't find my notes and didn't feel like slogging through the documentation yet again. (Eventually I found the notes.) One of the things Webmin put into rc.conf was a line that said: network_interfaces=fxp0 After finding network_interfaces in man rc.conf I looked in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and found... guess what? ... network_interfaces="auto". This says to me that because of the line in /etc/rc.conf all the interfaces were being shut off except fxp0. Bad. I commented the extraneous line in etc/rc.conf as well as the ifconfig_lo0 line I'd added (there's one in etc/defaults/rc.conf, of course) and rebooted, and suddenly that daemon can find its port. CUPS still won't print, though. :( _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
