Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]
Date	2016-10-25 13:30 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:54:27AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 12:36:11 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:59:20AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > > On Tue 25 Oct 2016 at 11:16:49 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> > > > >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

[...]

> Sorry; yes.
> 
> In the final Stretch installer netcfg is quite likely not to put
> loopback in /etc/network/interfaces. So from being "always there"
> it will go to never there.

Thanks for the info, very useful. In our case, for context: the
above output is from '/sbin/ifconfig' (and not from 'cat
/etc/network/interfaces'). So I'd expect lo to be there, anyway.

Regards
- -- t
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Unidentified subject! <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-09-29 00:50 +0200
  DHCP failure (was Re: Unidentified subject!) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-09-29 01:20 +0200
    Re: DHCP failure (was Re: Unidentified subject!) Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-09-29 12:10 +0200
  Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified  subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-29 11:40 +0200
    Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified  subject!] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 12:30 +0200
      Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified  subject!] Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-09-29 13:20 +0200
        Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified  subject!] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 16:40 +0200
    Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-10-24 00:40 +0200
      Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 11:20 +0200
        Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 12:00 +0200
          Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 12:40 +0200
            Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 13:00 +0200
              Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 13:30 +0200
                Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 14:10 +0200
                Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 14:40 +0200

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