Re: [SLUG] weird loss of local interface ##

["Michael" <michaelf@nospam.mafnet.com>]

init.d start up and layout on Debian is very different to that of Redhat

-----Original Message-----
From: Minh Van <mle@nospam.mail.usyd.edu.au>
To: James Wilkinson <jamesw@nospam.student.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: slug@nospam.slug.org.au <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Date: Friday, 31 March 2000 11:07
Subject: Re: [SLUG] weird loss of local interface ##


>> >i later found out the next morning that ifconfig didn't have a local
>> >loopback interface, and the default 127.0.0.0 route was missing. eth0
was
>> >still up.
>>
>> What distribution are you using?  I had this exact same problem with
>> Debian frozen only two days ago, after I updated to the latest freeze.
>> Basically, the old network setup script /etc/init.d/network breaks on
>> loopback, and they now use /etc/init.d/interfaces (iirc).  You have to
>> comment out all the commands in /etc/init.d/network, and uncomment the
>> loopback and eth0 lines in /etc/init.d/interfaces.
>>
>> However, if it's another distro, then none of this will help you ;)
>
>yeah i'm using rh5.1 [2.2.5].
>
>i have no ../interfaces file, but an /etc/rc.d/init.d/network file. i
>assume /etc/init.d/interfaces is an amendment to the ../network script in
>debian.
>
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