Re: IPX and loopback

1996-08-13 Thread Dominik Kubla
Hello Pablo, > Why does kerneld load the IPX module while the localhost's loopback > interface is being set up? (ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1) > I see no need to it... stracing ifconfig shows that it makes an IPX call > (and also an AX.25 and some other calls). This didn't happened with and > old Slackw

Re: IPX and loopback

1996-08-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > I'm not clear what the "real" fix should be. its kind of a bug in ifconfig an will be fixed in a future release of ifconfig by me. Greetings Bernd net-tools upstream maintainer

Re: IPX and loopback

1996-08-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Regarding why IPX gets loaded when configuring the loopback interface, Please figure out its protocol number and add "alias net-pf-N off" to /etc/conf.modules , where N is the protocol number. I'm not clear what the "real" fix should be. Thanks Bruce

IPX and loopback

1996-08-12 Thread Pablo Bianucci
Hi! Why does kerneld load the IPX module while the localhost's loopback interface is being set up? (ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1) I see no need to it... stracing ifconfig shows that it makes an IPX call (and also an AX.25 and some other calls). This didn't happened with and old Slackware based installati