Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]
On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 12:36:11 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:59:20AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > 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
>
> To add some context, this is from ifupdown's (0.7.41) changelog, right?
Sorry; yes.
In the final Stretch installer netcfg is quite likely not to put
loopback in /etc/network/interfaces. So from being "always there"
it will go to never there.
--
Brian.
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