[Xorp-users] user group problem to run xorpsh

[James]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 08:23:51AM +0000, Mark Handley wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:38:13PM +0530, Avinash Aithal wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> I'm a newbie to this group. I just installed Xorp on a Linux machine and
> >> could start the xorp_rtrmgr without problems. But I'm not able to enter
> >> the 'configure mode' using xorpsh. I've logged in as a user who belongs
> >> to group 'xorp'.
> >
> >On the terminal that is running xorp_rtrmgr, what do you see when you type
> >'configure' in xorpsh?
> >
> >I am having the same problem except that my Finder's XRL resolver is down, whi
> >ch
> >I'll need to figure out why... 
> 
> One idea: if you have a machine that doesn't have a configured
> loopback interface, the communication with the finder might fail to be
> set up correctly.  I vaguely remember seeing this problem a couple or
> years back, so I don't know is this is still an issue or not.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply. I do have the loopback interface configured online
and running (127.0.0.1, ::1, the usuals) -- are there any special check or
security measures xorp performs on lo0 interface other than just communicating
tcp/ip over it?

Thanks,
-J

> 
>  - Mark

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