> Anyway, the intranet is a Window NT net and while goofing around I > discovered that my machine has two IP addresses. One is the one > assigned, 172.16.18.5 and the other is 127.0.0.1. I think I have gone > through all the config files in /etc and I can't find out where this > address is being sent out from. When I reboot with just the Windows for > Workgroups the address disappears so I am assuming it is an artifact of > one of the network items I installed on the Linux side. > > Can someone tell me which package has this generic address and where I > can find it and kill it?
The 127.0.0.1 address is the so-called localhost-address. Linux uses this address if it is running standalone, no network available, and for local purposes. Thus you should not remove this address, which normally is found int /etc/hosts. Andreas.
