Could it mean that you have a localhost and a local server (one kind) and any network connection you make to it does not use your network interface (which is true, localhost connections wouldn't use the ethernet card by default) Just one way of interpreting... Apu Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > I am reading an O'Reilly book, "TCP/IP Network Administration", and > there is something said which does not make any sense to me. Is there > someone who might be able to explain the meaning behind this: > > TCP/IP CH 6 - Configuring the Interface > > "When networking protocols work only with a single kind of physical > network, there is no need to identify the network interface to the > software. The software knows what the interface MUST be; no configuration > issues are left for the administrator." > > This doesn't make sense to me, because if I set up a machine with an > ethernet card in it, I still have to configure that interface. I tell it > what IP address to use. Even if I only have one ethernet card, and no > other interfaces installed, this is so. Why would they say something like > this? What do they mean that if there is only one physical interface it > doesn't need to be configured? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org