On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 13:19:48 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:54:27AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 12:36:11 +0200, to...@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, to...@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.
Uncharacteristically, I did wander a bit off topic, didn't I? Back on the straight and narrow now. :) -- Brian.
