[Gllug] local loopback interface

[Paul Nasrat]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:26:57AM +0100, Paul Brazier wrote:
> Does anyone know how I configure the local loopback interface "lo" to
> start at boot?

> I'm using Mandrake 8.0.

I believe mandrake uses the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* scripts. In the same manner as
RedHat, I may be wrong...

Check ifcfg-lo is set up it should read like this, check ONBOOT is set
to yes, etc.

DEVICE=lo
IPADDR=127.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=127.0.0.0
# If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian,
# you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example)
BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
NAME=loopback

Paul

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