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

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:54:27AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> 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

[...]

> 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.

Thanks for the info, very useful. In our case, for context: the
above output is from '/sbin/ifconfig' (and not from 'cat
/etc/network/interfaces'). So I'd expect lo to be there, anyway.

Regards
- -- t
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