On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 13:22 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
> My reply is in the text.
<snip>
> start
>
> Mine:
> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> Reconfiguring network interfaces.../etc/network/interfaces:7: unknown
> method
> ifdown: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
> /etc/network/interfaces:7: unknown method
> ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
> done.
>
>
> Let me know how it works out.
>
> Stephen Queen
>
> I think the problem is the lo loopback. When I did ifconfig, it did
> not come up: I did ifconfig lo up and it is there; but mayhaps it is
> not doing any thing? the http://localhost:631 still times out.
>
> Thank you in advance.
Hmm, /etc/init.d/networking runs ifup -a to bring up all the interfaces.
Try a few combinations of
ifdown lo
ifup lo
and see what you get. It might be that ifconfig lo up is not enough.
However, in my case ifconfig shows the following
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10290 (10.0 KiB) TX bytes:10290 (10.0 KiB)
Hope it helps,
Ionut
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