[Ilugc] Loop back interface
- From: praveen@xxxxxxxxxxx (Praveen Kumar)
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:48:44 +0530
Tom Jose Tharayil wrote:
Tom Jose Tharayil wrote:
we can keep upto 8 by default.
If you want more, recompile the kernel and praveen kumar of this list
has gone upto 11. But I have had a maximum of only 8.
I think what he asked was about loop back interface (network) and not
loop devices if I am correct.
Oops :( apologies to the original poster.
Network loopback interfaces are similar to normal network interfaces.
You can have multiple loopback interfaces and call them with :n prefix.
For instance, if I need 6 loopback interfaces, I will configure lo,
lo:0, lo:1, lo:2, lo:3, lo:4 with different IP adresseses such as
127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3, 127.0.0.4, 127.0.0.5, 127.0.0.6
For achieving this in Debian, you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces
and add lo:0 to lo:5 to the 'auto' line and add seperate sections for
each loopback interface.
HTH.
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