I changed my lo device name to lo:1 using ip command this is what I did ip link set dev lo name lo:1 my network did not respond and I had to reboot the system, I was not able to change it back or add lo device using ifconfig Please let me know why did it happen, what does lo play in network? I have eth0 assigned.... regards vadiraj ___________________________________________________ Catering meets Camera; Tanya Weds Sahil. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match Visit http://matchmaker.rediff.com?1 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
I changed my lo device name to lo:1 using ip command this is what I did ip link set dev lo name lo:1 my network did not respond and I had to reboot the system, I was not able to change it back or add lo device using ifconfig Please let me know why did it happen, what does lo play in network? I have eth0 assigned.... regards vadiraj ___________________________________________________ Catering meets Camera; Tanya Weds Sahil. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match Visit http://matchmaker.rediff.com?1 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:23, vadiraj c s wrote:> I changed my lo device name to lo:1 using ip command > > this is what I did > ip link set dev lo name lo:1 > > my network did not respond and I had to reboot the system, > I was not able to change it back or add lo device using ifconfig > > > Please let me know why did it happen, what does lo play in > network? > I have eth0 assigned....Only 1 question : Why ? Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/