ssh forwarding question

[doug]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Beech Rintoul wrote:

> On Monday 03 September 2007, Pollywog said:
>> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 00:13:13 Pollywog wrote:
>>> On Monday 03 September 2007 23:08:45 Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>>>> Pollywog wrote:
>>>>> bind: Can't assign requested address
>>>>> channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 15901
>>>>> Could not request local forwarding.
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me that you have a problem with a firewall. Look at
>>>> your own message. It looks like port 15901 is closed for
>>>> listening.
>>>
>>> Here is another clue.  Something seems to be wrong with the
>>> loopback:
>>>
>>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>>>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>> ripple# ping localhost
>
>> Yes that was the problem.  I did this:
>>
>> ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
>>
>
> Make sure you have this line in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
>

This is new with 7.0?  I have the above in none of many rc.conf's 4.11 --> 6.2.