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

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]
Date 2016-10-25 12:00 +0200
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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
> 
> This is the "local" interface. It's always there. It doesn't correspond
> to any hardware. For our quest, you can safely ignore that.

Nothing to do with the OP's issue but people might be interested in
knowing that this stanza is not a requirement for inclusion in the
interfaces file. If it is left out you still get a loopback interface.

>From the changelog:

  * Add implicit loopback device definition.

 -- Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:44:23 +0200

-- 
Brian.

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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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