On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 03:55:32PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 29.08.2013 15:53, schrieb Neil Horman: > > you can use the ip utility to create dummy network devices on top of your > > loopback device, but the better question is - why? Having multiple clients and > > servers on a single system doesn't in any way require multiple loopback > > interfaces. just have the servers and clients all listen on, and connect to > > 127.0.0.1, and assign each server a separate port number. > > that does not help you much in case as example a multi-postfix-installation > when the software is not interested in using a different port and you > want simulate real world by different IP's, binding services to specific > ones and work with *hostnames* via /etc/hosts > Then add multiple address aliases to the existing loopback interface. Either way, theres really no reason at all to create multiple loopback interfaces Neil -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
