auto add 127.0.0.0?

[Barbara and Rory Campbell-Lange <b&r@campbell-lange.net>]

Will lots of help from this list I have configured the lo and eth0
interfaces to load at system startup by correctly setting these up in the
etc/network/interfaces file.

How do I set up the general loopback network address 127.0.0.0?

at the moment I am using the keyin

    route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
    
can I put this in etc/network/interfaces? or will the normally defined lo
iface clash with this information?

Thanks for any help.

Rory