[ILUG] static routing

[Kenn Humborg]

On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 02:42:01AM +0100, Ger Gorman wrote:
> hmm. I see now where I was going wrong. I thought the route command 
> wrote a static route table. duh.
> I still don't understand though why the local host isn't by default 
> set to to through lo. 

Check the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo.  On my RH6 box
it looks like this:

DEVICE=lo
IPADDR=127.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=127.0.0.0
BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes


Note that I've seem one case of a Redhat machine where this file got
a bit corrupted.  I don't know what caused that, but I'd guess that
it was linuxconf.

Later,
Kenn