Virtual loopback

[Jani_1]

Hi,

I have a machine with 2 nics and hp-ux 11. I created a virtual loopback device (lo0:1) like this:

lo0:1: flags=849
inet 99.0.0.66 netmask ffffff00

I'm would like to use gated (OSPF) so that I advert this virtual loopback device IP-address (99.0.0.66), so that other machines could use the IP to connect this HP machine without using the lan0 or lan1 real IP:s.

The lo0:1 works fine locally, but how should I config the gated.conf so that the ip shows outside too?

[Dietmar Konermann]

Hmm, to be honest, I have problems to understand that question... if you want to talk to this machine via an other IP why do you use lo0:1 and not e.g. lan0:1 or lan1:1?

Regards...
Dietmar.

[Jani_1]

I am trying to use the lo0:1 interface IP for outside connections. Actual connections still go through the lan0 or lan1, but whenever either interface stops working, the traffic would still use the same ip of lo0:1, but use the remaining nic.