Missing lo entry in routing table in FC2
Ian Laurie
ian at moose.blogdns.org
Fri Aug 6 08:28:48 UTC 2004
On 08/06/2004 10:30:00 AM, jludwig wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 19:03, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Fr, den 06.08.2004 schrieb jludwig um 0:27:
> >
> > > > 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
> >
> > Yes, I would expect that too. Don't actually know what's going on with
> > FC2 in this point. There must be changes in network scripts between FC1
> > and FC2. Have to discover that next days.
> >
> > > 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 at comcast.net>
> >
> > jludwig,
> >
> > the loopback device exists, but the route not. I can confirm the fact on
> > my FC2.
> >
> > Alexander
> Looks like I'll have to upgrade, which will be painful since I have many
> cad/cam programs and such that may have serious issues.
I have an FC1 and FC2 system side-by-side. Network scripts for loopback look
to be the same.
Its weird, the route is missing..... yet it seems to be working :)
Still investigating.
Ian
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