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Re: 'Network unreachable' to the localhost?



On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 15:36, Fam. Engelen wrote:

> '~$echo hallo | lpr' gives a message similar to 'network unreachable, could
> not reach lp@localhost'

Enable "Networking support" and "TCP/IP networking" in the kernel.
That's it for the 2.2 kernel series, IIRC.

For the 2.0 series you need to setup a loopback network device.  My
setup has a init script </etc/init.d/network> which does this.  Dpkg
does not know what package it belongs to.  I think it belonged to
netbase from slink.

A recipe on making you own:

# cat << 'EOF' > /etc/init.d/network
#!/bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
EOF
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/network
# (cd /etc/rcS.d; ln -s ../init.d/network S40network)

That should be it.  HTH.

Remco


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