On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
>
> Hello Mikkel and others reading this mail...
>
> I took your advice and made the change to my eth0 netmask and also to my 'lo'
> port. That needed changiing too otherwise things wouldn't work.
>
> Here are my two files now. First is the ifcfg-eth0 file:
>
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=44.135.34.209
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0 <-------------
> GATEWAY=44.135.34.201
> g&)
>
>
> And secondly, here is the ifcfg-lo file:
>
> DEVICE=lo
> IPADDR=127.0.0.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0 <--------------
> 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
> BOOTPROTO=none
>
>
> So that simple 'fix' did that trick. And now I know where else I am going to
> use that.
>
> Thanks Mikkel for the excellent suggestion and also thanks to all others who
> took time to comment..
>
>
I am glad you have it working. You should not have had to change
anything in ifcfg-lo. It will only generate routes for the lo interface
and the 127.0.0.0 netowork. But the changed netmask should not give you
problems, as it is unusual for anything except 127.0.0.1 to be used.
(It does change the broadcast address on the lo interface...)
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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