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

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:47:17PM +1000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Minh Van generated:
> 
> >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.

Well I've not been struck by this. /etc/network/interfaces is how (in future)
interfaces will be configured, in Debian, so humans and programs have an
easy time of it.

However you aren't required to modify /etc/init.d/network -- certainly none of my 8 machines have had to be touched.

If weren't able to get things working without modifying something then you should
definately file a bug on netbase.

Anand
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