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 -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/