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

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

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