The ifconfig man page just says the netmask must be "non-conflicting" if on the same subnet as the first network address for the interface (that'd be 127.0.0.1/

The ifconfig man page just says the netmask must be "non-conflicting" if on the same subnet as the first network address for the interface (that'd be 127.0.0.1/8 for lo0). I'm presuming the narrower netmask qualifies as non-conflicting?