I had the same problem with Mandrake 7.2. Add the line "ifconfig lo
127.0.0.1" to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:34, John Farrell wrote:
> When I start my machine, I have no loopback interface. I can create
> one, but why do I have to? Nobody I have asked has ever encountered
> a Unix machine without a loopback interface. Thanks for any clues!
>
> John
>
> [root@localhost john]# ifconfig
> [root@localhost john]# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> [root@localhost john]# ifconfig
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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