On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:27:16AM -0400, Jameson Burt wrote: > As I upgraded from slink to potato, > I believe an interactive comment mentioned that 2.2.* kernels > (I run kernel 2.2.16) need no explicit loopback. > Because of my selection, the upgrade script produced a file > /etc/network/interfaces > with all lines commented. > In particular, this "interfaces" file had the following line > # iface lo inet loopback > not > iface lo inet loopback > UNCOMMENTING THIS LINE GOT MY SYSTEM WORKING AGAIN. Well, duh. It's commented out by default because lo is initialised in /etc/init.d/network in slink. Not sure what happened to your /etc/init.d/network ... (I had to delete mine by hand - good riddance). -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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