The commands are ifdown lo ifup lo and not ifconfig ifup lo ifconfig ifdown lo I am somehow puzzled by your iface eth0 inet dynamic line in /etc/nwtwork/interfaces. Is it iface eth0 inet dhcp what you meant? According to man interfaces, the 'dynamic' keyword is meant for IPX ... Try again :-) Ionut On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 17:08 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > ifconfig ifup lo gives: > > # ifconfig ifup lo > lo: Unknown host > ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information. > > if-up.d folder in network folder has nothing at all. > > interfaces (in network) gives > > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo eth0 > iface lo inet loopback > iface eth0 inet dynamic > > What do I do? > > Thank you. -- *************** * Ionut Georgescu * Max-Plank-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Nöthnitzer Str. 38 * D-01187 Dresden * * Tel: +49 (351) 871-1109 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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