Re: question

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "r" == rich  <legacy@PLINK.ORG> writes:

Please chosse a more specific subject newxt time. 

r> root@plink:/usr/home/legacy> ping localhost
r> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes

r> --- localhost ping statistics ---
r> 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Do you have the loopback running ?

/sbin/ifconfig lo

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:69736 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:69736 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 

/sbin/route |grep lo
localnet        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        4 lo

This is set up in /etc/init.d/network:

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0

Ciao,
	Martin