[ale] forgetting to start lo...

[dsj at dsj.net (David S. Jackson)]

So then Todd R. Palmer (t2palmer at avana.net) said . . .

> David,
> On RH 5.1 the loopback device is started by the 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script which calls
> 	ifup ifcfg-lo
> 
> ifup is a script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
> 
> Make sure you have a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called 
> ifcfg-lo.  It should contain something like this:
> 
> [elohim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-lo 
> DEVICE=lo
> IPADDR=127.0.0.1
> NETMASK=255.0.0.0
> NETWORK=127.0.0.0
> BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
> 
> hth,
> todd

Many Thanks, Todd!  I put that in there, and we'll see what happens.  After
my upgrade, somehow the only variable that was set was BOOTPROTO=none.  I
guess that explains why I wasn't getting a lo at startup, huh?  :-)

I wasn't sure what a good one was supposed to look like, so thanks for
setting me straight!  :-)

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