On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > > > if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopback > > > device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a > > > module. > > > > What is gained by making loopback default? It's true that you need a > > loopback device, but that's a bug not a feature. > > Right, I do not have a problem with that, but that just means someone > needs to fix that in netinet/if_ether.c, and netinet/igmp.c.
Not to mention:
netinet6/{in6_pcb.c,in6_src.c,ip6_input.c,ip6_output.c,nd6.c}
but that wasn't my point. I ask again:
What is gained by making loopback default?
-- Brooks
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