[Old mail being hauled out and replied to...]

> A proposed solution is as follows:
> 	a) add an option to ifconfig(8) which returns the inet source
> 	   address for a given interface.

What's wrong with

	ifconfig $interface | awk '$1=="inet" { print $2; }'

Why add an inet-specific option?  (If you do add such an option, I
would strongly urge that it take an address family name and print out
all the interface's addresses in that address family.  As worded, the
option would be useless for non-inet networking and borderline useless
for interfaces with zero or more than two inet addresses.)

As for the localhost routes, I'd probably do something like

ifconfig -a | sed -n -e '/^[ 	]*inet /s/^[ 	]*inet \([^ ]*\) .*/route add \1 127.0.0.1/p' | sh

once.

					der Mouse

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