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Re: Network troubles + ifconfig-a output



This one time, at band camp, Willem-Jan Meijer said:
> Hello,
> Auto eth0
> Iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> Auto eth1
> 	Address 192.168.0.1
> 	Netmask 255.255.255.0
> 	Network 192.168.0.0
> 	Broadcast 192.168.0.255

This should presumably also have a line 'auto eth1'
 
> But internet doesn't work
> When I type ping localhost all packets are lost, when I want to ping
> outside they also get lost.

If 'ping localhost' doesn't work, there's a lo problem, I'm guessing.

> The output from ifconfig -a is:
> 
>  Eth0
>  Link ncap: ethernet hwaddr 00:02:44:52:08:b6
>  Inet addr: 62.164.231.248 bcast: 62.255.255.255 mask: 255.255.254.0 UP 
>  broadcast running multicast ntu: 1500 metric: 1 Rx packets:6896 
>  errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Tx packets: 82 errors:0 
>  dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 txqueuelen: 100
>  Rx bytes: 422730 (412.8 kib) tx bytes: 10972 (10.7 kib)
>  Interrupt:9 base address: 0x6500
>  
>  Eth1
>  Link ncap: Ethernet hwaddr 00:02:44:52:08:af
>  Inet addr: 192.168.0.1 bcast 192.168.0.255 mask 255.255.255.0 Up 
>  broadcast running multicast ntu: 1500 metric: 1 Rx packets: 701 
>  errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Tx packets: 57 errors:0 
>  dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 txqueuelen: 100
>  Rx bytes: 52077 (50.8 kib) tx bytes: 9586 (9.3 kib)
>  Interrupt:11 base address: 0x6600
>  
>  Lo
>  Link ncap: local loopback
>  Loopback ntu: 16436 metric:1
>  Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0  
>  txqueuelen:0 Rx bytes:0 (0.0b) tx bytes:0 (0.0 b)

And here it is, I think - lo should have an address associated with it.
Not sure why it doesn't - do you have an entry for lo in interfaces?

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