From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "vadiraj c s" Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:23:53 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] consequences of changing the lo device name Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org I changed my lo device name to lo:1 using ip command this is what I did ip link set dev lo name lo:1 my network did not respond and I had to reboot the system, I was not able to change it back or add lo device using ifconfig Please let me know why did it happen, what does lo play in network? I have eth0 assigned.... regards vadiraj ___________________________________________________ Catering meets Camera; Tanya Weds Sahil. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting match Visit http://matchmaker.rediff.com?1 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/