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#! rnews 1950 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.servtech.com!post.servtech.com!not-for-mail From: shawn carey <smc@servtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: routing to self via localhost? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:45:13 -0400 Organization: ServiceTech, Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <33A0C249.41C67EA6@servtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: boulder.syr.servtech.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42832 Hello, I have a FreeBSD 2.2.2 system with no hardware network intefaces that I need to get CDE running on. CDE requires that the system be able to communicate (even to itself) via the network. My first attempt was to add a route from the system's IP address to the loopback inetrface: % route add 192.168.1.1 127.0.0.1 But packets do not make it to localhost, or at least localhost does not recognize these packets as something it needs to worry about. This makes some amount of sense to me, however it doesn't help my situation much, and from what I can gather I have three possible solutions, all of which feel like they're in poor networking "taste" to me. 1) I can add a second loopback interface and ifconfig lo1 inet 192.168.1.1 2) I can specify the system's IP address as an alias on the loopback interface. 3) I can put the system's hostname on the same line as localhost in /etc/hosts. I am fairly comfortable with UNIX networking, but I have never before needed to network a system to itself without having at least one hardware inteface to hang an IP address from. Some kind soul please save me from putting a NIC in this machine and tell me what is the right way to do this? Thanks, -Shawn Carey