On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:07:42PM +0100, topi wrote:
> El Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:47:59 +0100 Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha
> escrit:
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:37:36AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > > Does/can the linux kernel (2.6.x) support multiple lo devices?
> >
> > Sure: ifconfig lo:1 10.0.0.138
>
> sure this is correct... but, now that i've been thinking of that, i
> have some doubts...
>
> are you sure that it's a second device instead of a second address on
> same device? ('lo:1' will be seen by the kernel as a different device
> from 'lo')
Second device or second address on the same device, it doesn't matter
because the result will be the same: packets for that adress will loop
back to the local host.
Erik
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