Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:42:16 +0200 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: xdm not seeing localhost |
| |
On Sep 16, Mike Jagdis wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Harald Koenig wrote: > > > ah, interesting. this also explains why I don't see my hostname at home > > because (for historical reasons) I have a dummy interface too > > which doen't hsa the broadcast flag set either: > > [...] > > but how can I get an entry for localhost again with 2.1.x ? > > I tried `ifconfig lo broadcast 127.255.255.255' but this didn't > > set the BROADCAST flag. > > > > is this a design decission in 2.1/2.2 that broadcasts are not possible > > at all (and not only off by default) for lo and dummy devices > > or is this just a bug ? > > It seems to be intentional. In the case of dummy it certainly > looks as though BROADCAST should be allowed. It is supposed to > behave like a real network interface isn't it?
any rationale for this intention ? right now I only can see that
- it breaks xdm - it's incompatible to other U*X (*BSD and Linux 2.0)
are there any other programs which might need broadcasts on lo, too ?
Harald -- All SCSI disks will from now on ___ _____ be required to send an email notice 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ 24 hours prior to complete hardware failure! <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// Harald Koenig, \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Inst.f.Theoret.Astrophysik // / \\ \ koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |