All, after discussions with several devs on irc about this issue, the following change has been made in openrc-0.9.9 which was just released:
The loopback interface provides lo and *NOT* net. All other network interfaces provide net. For the categories given, this means the following: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 06:15:13PM -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > 1. Services that connect to remote machines via any available network > interface. These should use or need net. > 2. Services that listen to connections from remote machines on any > available network interface, and run correctly even if no non-lo > interfaces are up. These should be changed to use or need lo. > 3. Services that require a specific network interface, bind to a > specific address, or connect to a specific machine on the local subnet. These will have to be configured by the user with something like: rc_use/need="!net net.iface" Thanks, William
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