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Re: Loopback configuration problems



On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Assaf Margalit wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I Have a net configuration problem that one of you guys might have 
> encountered. I am running a standalone machine with no network
> card attached. I am using a commercial licsence server (elan ..)
> that will not generate licencse keys to a machine whose IP address
> is the default 127.0.0.1, so I need to give a different IP address
> for my machine (any arbitrary ip would do).
> And here is the problem, I can't connect the loopback connection to both
> localhost and my machine. I know that this was possible on earlier 
> slackware versions, I must connect loopback to my machine for the
> license server to work and I must have a lopback for localhost for
> all other applications (mainly X) to work properly.
[snip]
Why not just shove in a cheap network card?
Did you try something similar to adding another IP to a regular interface:
/sbin/ifconfig lo:1 ${IPADDR}  (I never tried it)

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