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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:14:23
Message-Id: FBC5A532-BC61-4FA6-8A16-59EB1DEC9B5D@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ... by Alexander Skwar
1 On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2
3 > Hello!
4 >
5 > Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at
6 > the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this:
7 >
8 > alexander@blatt ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start
9 > * Starting lo
10 > * Bringing up lo
11 > * 127.0.0.1/8
12 > SIOCSIFADDR: File exists
13 > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
14 > SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
15 > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
16 > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested
17 > address [ !! ]
18 um, why are you having to start loopback by hand? does it fail to
19 start on boot?
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