Re: Ifconfig

[john doe <johndoe2k@gmail.com>]

I have no insight into this particular problem but the config file
/etc/network/interfaces might give you some clue?
-jd

On 6/13/05, David R. Litwin <presently42@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have set my ifconfig (via pppoeconf) to start up a ppp and eth0
> connection.
>  
>  My ifconfig, when working properly, reads thus:
>  
>  ifconfig
>  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:B8:AE:EA
>            inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:feb8:aeea/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:14311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:12377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:1 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:8317950 (7.9 MiB)  TX bytes:1993074 (1.9 MiB)
>            Interrupt:9 Base address:0xb800
>  
>  lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:390 (390.0 b)  TX bytes:390 (390.0 b)
>  
>  ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>            inet addr:65.94.84.97  P-t-P:64.230.197.65  Mask:255.255.255.255
>            UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
>            RX packets:11365 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:11273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>            RX bytes:7840851 (7.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1677456 (1.5 MiB)
>  
>  The problem is two-fold:
>  
>  One: When I boot up in to Linux, it automatically connects me - twice. I
> have to give "ifconfig ppp1 down" so that I've only one ppp connection. How
> do I stop ppp1 from existing and have only ppp0?
>  
>  Two: I need to have lo up when I boot up so that my printer works. It used
> to do this: But no more. I must do "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up" for lo to go
> up. How do I get it to do this on its own?
>  
>  I think it has to do with the Networking files, yes?
>  
>  Thank you in advance.
> 
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