Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/12/14, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>> experience with Debian Wheezy is that lo "goes down" a lot, so this >> is one of the first things I do when odd stuff happens. > Use a better operating system then, I've used at work and home, suse, > opensuse, rhel, centos, slackware and fedora, and never in my all my > years of linux (I've used it since I was 14 and am mid twenties now) > has loopback ever *gone away* unless i deliberately made it so. And the same goes for Debian. I have never in the last 16 years "lost" a loopback device out of the blue. If your lo "goes down" a lot, then there is something suspicious at foot and this need to be investigated. This is not normal Debian behavior. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.