Re: What could be wrong with my network setup

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:41:42 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

>> $ ifconfig -a
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:2f:be:4b:ba
>>           inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255 
>>           Mask:255.255.255.0
> 
> Is that all?  What's up with the lo(opback) interface?

Ah, there it is:

$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:2f:be:4b:ba  
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:52480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:44283715 (42.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1864392 (1.7 MiB)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          LOOPBACK  MTU: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 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Is the 'lo' normal? I never actually look into its output -- was just 
making sure the lo was there...

thanks

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