Very Computer

> Under all versions of Solaris, except 8, when you ifconfig your loopback
> address (lo0) with an IP address of some other host that host won't be able to
> ping or make any network connections to the server.  That's obvious because the
> ip address is now local to the machine and everything just breaks for that
> host.
> HOST = 10.20.20.200/24
> Some router in between to connect each other.
> Server = 10.2.0.2/24
> Then you "ifconfig lo0:1 10.20.20.200 netmask 255.255.255.255 up" and the host
> cannot talk to the server anymore.
> In the Solaris 8 environment, even patched up with xref file 2/28/01, when you
> do an "ifconfig lo0 addif 10.20.20.200 netmask 255.255.255.255 up" or "ifconfig
> lo0:1 plumb ; ifconfig lo0:1 10.20.20.200 netmask 255.255.255.255 up" the host
> is still able to talk with the server.  If you wait like 2 hours, sometimes the
> host will not be able to ping/talk to the server until you unplumb lo0:1 then
> traffic will start right away.
> Has anyone else seen this?  Is this an "added feature" in solaris 8?  Any
> suggestions to make it work like previous versions of Solaris.  Well for that
> matter make it would like is should.   :)