> > There have been a number of changes to networking stuff when the new arp
> > code went into the tree.  Was that 2 weeks ago?  What does an ifconfig -a
> > show you?
> 
> I don't have this right in front of me, but I think it's:
> 
> ae0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>         inet 10.1.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.1.255
> ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST>
> ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST>
> lo0: flags=80??<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST>
> 
> Note that the lo0 is not up. ifconfig'ing ae0 works ok,
> but ifconfig'ing lo0 takes 1-2 minutes then fails.

How weird.  You do have:

pseudo-device   loop

in your config file, right?  Of course, if it's even showing up, I 
suppose that it must exist in the kernel...

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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