[Musix-users] Wouhou ! Solution for network problem (Problems with 0.49)

Sat Jul 1 16:29:11 CEST 2006

El Viernes, 30 de Junio de 2006 21:39, julien bodd escribió:
> Marco ! carajo, the error is corrected..
> I realized that after boot..that I don't have any "lo" interface up! (with
> ifconfig)
> Wierd!
>
> I checked the file : /etc/network/interfaces, and it was ok :
> > auto lo eth0
> > iface lo inet loopback
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> It seems that /etc/init.d/networking start does not perform well..
> After boot..only the eth0 is up.
> And sometimes, nothing..In those cases..I was performing a :
> Musix -->Programs -->Knoppix -->Net-->network card configuration.
>
> Then, surprising, again only eth0 were up. Still no loopback.

Ok

> So I checked the /etc/init.d/networking script..and saw that the restart
> option does not make a ifdown of the loopback..

Ok

> I checked the execution of /etc/init.d/networking restart , and SURPRISING,
> still no loopback after..I suppose that Musix -->Programs -->Knoppix
> -->Net-->network card configuration use that script..

Ok

> So I executed myself an : ifdown -a and after an ifup -a..
> And : WOUHOU..eth0 and loopback are there...
> !!! AND ALL APPS ARE WORKING !!!!

OK

> Hmmm..for now, I'll put ifdown and ifup in an init script..sh I can finally
> play with Musix.

So, if we could include an script that makes

ifdown -a
ifup -a

the problem could be solved?

Do you recommend to include this kind of scrip into the distro? Or would it 
damage another kind of configurations/hardware? What do you think?

> Do you have any idea for the strange behavior?

No, maybe this script is just old.

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