Re: Help with NIC configuration.

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On 17 Aug 2001 01:46:06 -0400, Debian Baby wrote:
> It's still not working, bit this is what I did.
> 
> I used 'dselect' to install 'pump'.
> 
> Edited the /etc/network/interfaces file to be:
> 
>     auto eth0
>     iface eth0 inet dhcp
>     hostname myhostname
> 
> Rebooted.
> 
> It still behaves the same way.  I can't ping 127.0.0.1, I get the
> "unreachable" error.
> 
> Is there a sequential checklist that I should be following?  I *can* see the
> driver when I do "lsmod", so it would seem there would be a next logical
> test that would identify exactly what is not working.  It appears to be that
> TCP/IP is not working/installed.  If I can see the driver, but I can't ping
> 127.0.0.1 - I would think that would narrow it down.

Are there lines as follows in your /etc/network/interfaces ?

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

This as far as I know is required to be able to hit 127.0.0.1.  I can't
remember (and by looking back in the thread) if you have a firewall
configuration running that would conflict with some tcp/ip issues.

--mike