> >i later found out the next morning that ifconfig didn't have a local
> >loopback interface, and the default 127.0.0.0 route was missing. eth0 was
> >still up.
>
> What distribution are you using? I had this exact same problem with
> Debian frozen only two days ago, after I updated to the latest freeze.
> Basically, the old network setup script /etc/init.d/network breaks on
> loopback, and they now use /etc/init.d/interfaces (iirc). You have to
> comment out all the commands in /etc/init.d/network, and uncomment the
> loopback and eth0 lines in /etc/init.d/interfaces.
>
> However, if it's another distro, then none of this will help you ;)
yeah i'm using rh5.1 [2.2.5].
i have no ../interfaces file, but an /etc/rc.d/init.d/network file. i
assume /etc/init.d/interfaces is an amendment to the ../network script in
debian.
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