Joel Kreager <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I have been trying to set up a local network to bridge through my dsl
>connected computer. I am running redhat 9 but with a 2.6.10 kernel on
>my main computer. Since I could not get any ping to return from my
>second computer when pinging first, (I tried many things), I turned
>off all the network setup /etc/sysconfig/network to off to do
>everything by hand. (An emergency linux disk did return pings from
>the second computer, but redhat 9 did not). When I run:
>
>/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
>
>I get:
>
>[veryfine:~]# /sbin/ifconfig lo
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:29 (29.0 b) TX bytes:29 (29.0 b)
>
>But when I run:
>
>/sbin/route add 127.0.0.1
>
>I get:
>
>SIOCADDRT: No such device
Since you didn't give a device name, it is using "" for the name.
Read the man pages for ifconfig and route. Then try these steps in turn:
/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
# These are just for information:
/sbin/ifconfig lo
/sbin/route
ping 127.0.0.1 # Works because ifconfig sets a subnet route.
>I can run:
>
>/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 127.0.0.1
If you have deleted the route that ifconfig provided, the command
to put it back is
/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo
You certainly don't need a gatway! But you do need to tell it which
interface the route applies to...
>successfully, but I can't ping localhost.
>
>Don't know if this is the reason I can't get a return from the redhat
>host when I ping from my second computer, but I am suspicious.
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