On Sunday 04 January 2004 03:54, Naomi Ridge wrote: > --- Martin Büchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On > Saturday 03 January 2004 22:59, Naomi Ridge > > > You should set the loopback ip (i.e dont let it > > unconfigured but add "address > > 127.0.0.1" to /etc/network/interfaces for the lo > > device, maybe even netmask) > > to get loopback running. > > > > I may be wrong but i had problems with this before > > (not mozilla related), and > > with the ip set everything works fine. > > I'm certainly not an expert, but I didn't think that > the loopback device in ifup had any options, so > setting the ip and netmask in /etc/network/interfaces > should make no difference. > > Anyway, having tried this, I now notice that the IP > and netmask are correct until dhclient is started > > (apologies for the long paste): > > cat /etc/network/interfaces > > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for > ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > address 127.0.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > ifconfig > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > frame:0 > TX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:12488 (12.1 KiB) TX bytes:12488 > (12.1 KiB) > > > dhclient > > Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc11 > Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit > http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP > > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:02:2d:52:cb:e8 > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:02:2d:52:cb:e8 > Listening on LPF/lo/ > Sending on LPF/lo/ > Sending on Socket/fallback > DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1 > bound to 192.168.2.2 -- renewal in 105907 seconds. > ophiuchus:/home/naomi# ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr > 00:02:2D:52:CB:E8 > inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 > Metric:1 > RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > frame:0 > TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:336 (336.0 b) TX bytes:396 (396.0 > b) > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x100 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > frame:0 > TX packets:193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:12816 (12.5 KiB) TX bytes:12816 > (12.5 KiB) > > > naomi. Sorry I don't have any experiences with dhclient (besides trying it once and it was not working, so i switched to dhcpcd which works fine for me), but its interesting that dhclient also sets th lo adapter. Maybe someone else knows more than me ;)
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