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