[Gllug] local loopback interface

[Paul Brazier]

OK, I think I've sorted this out now: my
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo was the same as below.
But in the "Mandrake Control Centre" (subset of linuxconf I think) you
can start or stop "services" and configure them to start on boot.
The "network" service wasn't started on boot (although I could dial-up
connect with ppp OK) and this starts up the lo interface.

I'm not sure if there's a single config file that corresponds to these
services or if the GUI is pulling together information from disparate
scripts and files and presenting them as a unified list of services.
Perhaps it looks for all server daemons in /etc/rc.d/init.d/?
Does Linux look through this directory on boot to see if there are any
daemons to start automatically?

-----Original Message-----
From: pnasrat at uk.now.com 
Sent: 23 July 2001 11:39
To: linux.co.uk.gllug; uk.now.com;.pnasrat
Subject: Re: [Gllug] local loopback interface


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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