Re: Setting IP address not working

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:59, Kent West wrote:
uring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured
>
> This disturbs me. If you've just taken networking down, why is lo
> already configured?
>
> Try "/etc/init.d/networking stop"
> then "ifconfig"
> and report the results.

root@kanger alan # /etc/init.d/networking stop
Deconfiguring network interfaces...done.
root@kanger alan # ifconfig
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:257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:72288 (70.5 KiB)  TX bytes:72288 (70.5 KiB)


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Alan Chandler
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