can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how?
okay -- not sure how to word this, but here goes... a friend of mine is working with a college to establish remote-to-local ssh tunnels -- we've got an application that runs on office computers that listens for a connection from the server, so it can handle the menuing on campus. the linux/database server says "here, run the menu" and the client machine says "okie dokie". we want the staff to be able to do this remotely, and tunnelling tcp ports (remote-to-local) seems the way to go. works like a champ, except-- only one process can seize the server's port 9999 at a time. pooh. so one client connects, tunnels server port 9999 to client's "localhost:9999". fine and dandy. then the next tries connecting, and when hooking up to the server, the server's ssh daemon can't seize port 9999 as it's already locked down by the first user. if there were a way to have more than one "localhost" interface, it would be the way around this. what's needed to implement something like that? (lo:1 lo:2 etc?) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #125 from Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Ever wondered about confirming WHICH CPU, KERNEL OR DEBIAN VERSION YOU HAVE? It's easy: cat /proc/cpuinfo There's lots of other neat stuff under /proc, too. (You guessed it -- "man proc" will tell you more.) For kernel and Debian data, try uname -a cat /etc/debian_version Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]