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Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Tue Nov 30 07:59:27 2004

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:28:40PM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29 Nov 2004, at 10:58, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> 
> >You can solve the renumber thingie by having all TCP connecting to/from
> >an official IP on the loopback interface.  Then the routing code could
> >do its work and route the packets through some some other or renumbered
> >interface.
> 
> So how do you renumber the loopback interface?

	#ifconfig lo0 down
	#ifconfig lo0 ::2
	#ifconfig lo0 up

is one way...

--bill