On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:40:24AM +0200, Izak Burger wrote: > On 8/11/06, Christian Schuerer <debian.lists@quincunx.at> wrote: > >Isn't it strange that there is an DHCP client running on lo? I don't get > >the > >point of doing that. > The pid is the same for all three (29184), so it is obviously a > process that binds to 0.0.0.0, and as a result, ends up listening on > lo as well. The man page actually states it best: > --- snip --- > The names of the network interfaces that dhclient should attempt to > configure may be specified on the command line. If no interface > names are specified on the command line dhclient will normally > identify all network interfaces, eliminating non-broadcast interfaces > if possible, and attempt to configure each interface. > --- snip --- It remains strange because normally, lo is a non-broadcast interface. bye, -- Nicolas Haller
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