Re: Holiday arrangements

[Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:51:38 -0400, Travis Crump wrote:

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>
>I had a similar problem recently, and eventually traced it down to the 
>local loopback interface never being brought up.  Follow the directions 
>at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/x540.html>[run 'ifconfig lo 
>127.0.0.1; route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo' as root].  For a quick check to 
>see if this is the problem, run /sbin/ifconfig and see if it lists 'lo' 
>as an interface(if it doesn't than this is your problem).  My question 
>is why wasn't the loopback interface configured in the first place?  As 
>a corollary, what should I do to make sure it is brought up 
>automagically?  Just make my own script and put it in rc2.d?  Or is 
>there a less kludgy way...

to "/etc/network/interfaces" add:

	auto	lo
	iface lo	inet	loopback

See man interfaces.

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