On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 11:57 -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > Also Host B's address space is in the 10 net, obviously I can choose > another address range for a loopback, but I've never seen anything other > than 127.0.0.1 as a loopback on a unix machine and changing it will > surely break something. Can I create loopback1? I've never tried.... I can't think why you'd want to mess with the loopback. The local loopback address is for the machine to refer to itself. It's not for remote usage. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.