On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 17:28, Ian Laurie wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone else have this weird problem? My routing table is missing > the default lo entry (in FC2 only): > > orion# route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > 10.105.108.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 10.1.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > default router 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > orion# > > Is this normal ??? I would expect an enty like this to be there as well: > > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > > I doesn't *seem* to be a problem, but ya never know....... > > Ian There are programs which need the loop-back. This is my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo; 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 -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
