Am Mi, den 15.12.2004 schrieb Gregory.Alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx um 12:14: > localhost is the loopback device, for example if you installed a > webserver, you could access it via http://localhost, it means that you can > setup and test network software without having a network. > I always use "ifconfig" to setup network devices. > Greg Alexander Gregory, why do you reply to my posting? What do you want to tell me with the content? Speaking about the original posters mail, his question was not about the loopback device but the eth0 ethernet device and the IP <--> name mapping. Btw. setting up the ethernet devices manually using ifconfig is not needed in any way and gives no advantage as the network scripts do so using the more modern iproute2. Alexander P.S. Please do not post HTML formatted mails to this list. Especially avoid to send this stupid disclaimer to a public, archived mailinglist and strip quotation please. O, and don't modify the subject line. Thanks. -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Serendipity 12:30:28 up 5 days, 7:11, load average: 0.76, 0.48, 0.38
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