[ale] forgetting to start lo...

[Todd R. Palmer]

> Can anyone tell me why I can't seem to get the lo device to initialize
> automatically during startup?  (And don't say "because you're kinda 
dumb,
> Dave!"  :-)

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

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Todd Palmer
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