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Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]



On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 11:16:49 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> 
> This is the "local" interface. It's always there. It doesn't correspond
> to any hardware. For our quest, you can safely ignore that.

Nothing to do with the OP's issue but people might be interested in
knowing that this stanza is not a requirement for inclusion in the
interfaces file. If it is left out you still get a loopback interface.

>From the changelog:

  * Add implicit loopback device definition.

 -- Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:44:23 +0200

-- 
Brian.


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