Missing lo entry in routing table in FC2

[jludwig]

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

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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>