DJ Lucas wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
Mark Carey wrote:
The solution is to put it in front of the previous line so it reads
ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 label lo dev lo
ip link set lo up
See the current version of the bootscripts,
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-bootscripts-3.2.2.tar.bz2
Has anybody dug in to see why this works? It does not seem correct as
is. A physical link must exist to add an address to it, even on virtual
devices, correct?
Are you sure? http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2.doc.html#ss9.12 seems to
say that you configure the interface before you use ip link to set it up
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