[5930] in RedHat Linux List
Re: redhat-list: Re: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Richardson)
Sun Nov 24 23:34:18 1996
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:33:19 -0500
From: Gary Richardson <garich@ptd.net>
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alanr@henge.com wrote:
>
> Dave Wreski <tel1dvw@is.ups.com> wrote:
> >> Shouldn't I be able to simply say: 'route add -net 127.0.0.0' assuming my
> >> interface is configured? Typing this route command gives me:
> >> SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
>
> > I don't know why you get that, but I might ask exactly what you're trying
> > to accomplish. Normally RedHat automatically sets up the loopback interface
> > properly when it is booted, when /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-lo
> > is run.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eric
>
> I'm sure what he's trying to do is to do EXACTLY the same thing I'm
> trying to do when I do it... Get the networking to work. The add route
> at boot didn't work, because it got an SIOCADDRT also. I have three
> RedHat machines (2 with ethernet), and ONE of the three does this.
>
> A friend of mine said he thought he'd seen this and made it go away by
> some (now-forgetten) combination of making modules into statically
> loaded drivers. As for me, I can't say, as I don't have it fixed yet,
> either! The machine it works with has the EtherExpress Pro driver
> loaded, and the one that it fails for has an NE2000 clone card in it.
>
> Help (I need it too!)
>
> -- Alan Robertson
> alanr@henge.com OR alanr@bell-labs.com
Just a short addition:
after much munkiying around I found that in the RH network config box
for lo0 I put lo0 both as the initial device name and as the object name
on the first line of the configuration pop-up instead of using lo0 /
lo. That typo cost a lot of lost hrs tracking.
G. Richardson
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