Re: consequences of changing the lo device name

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On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:23, vadiraj c s wrote:
> 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....
Only 1 question : Why ?

Stef

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