Re: [expert] dhcpcd weirdness

[Dan Brown]

From: Corbett J. Klempay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Thanks, I will check.  A related question...I went into linuxconf and told
> it to set my network device (it is named lo in this case, not
> eth0...anyone able to explain when it's lo and when it's eth0? I'm

    lo and eth0 are completely different devices.  lo should always be set
to 127.0.0.1, and would be unable to get an address via dhcp, since there
isn't a dhcp server attached to it.