[Nottingham] How to enable echo (for ping)

[Martin]

Martin wrote:
> Tom Bird wrote:
> 
>>> OK folks, this must be a trivially simple question...
>>>
>>> How do I enable echo on this box?
> 
>  >>
> [...]
>> sure 'lo' is actually up.
> 

... And 'ifconfig' gives

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:1110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:1110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:1627314 (1.5 Mb)  TX bytes:1627314 (1.5 Mb)

[... eth0 snippage ...]


?
Martin


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