The NIC shows loopback enabled and he no longer has access to the network, is it because the loopback is enabled?
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Browse All TopicsCan anybody tell me how to disable the loopback on the fibre card in a Linux PC? The network has become inaccessible and we think that is the problem as it showing enabled now?
Thanks in advance for the help.
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route -n
Kernal IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric REf Use Iface
ifconfig -a
eth0 link encap:ethernet hwaddr 00:15:77:83:70:6c
broadcast multicast mtu:1500 metric:1
rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
tx packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
rx bytes: 0 (0.0b) tx bytes:1368 (1.3kib)
interrupt:22 base address:0xb000
lo Link ecncap:Local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0
up loopback running mtu:16436 metric:1
rx packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
tx packets: 6 error:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier: 0
collision:0 txqueulen:0
rx bytes 300 tx bytes 300
In answer to an above question (though not THE question)... you need not even attempt to remove (or down) the lo (or on some systems lo0) interface. The so called "loopback" interface is present (and necessary) for linux network services to "talk" to one another (for example, the web server wanting to lookup an IP address using bind).
The lo interface will not affect any other interface, and has no hardware associated with it. To my knowledge, you CANNOT (and I should think that you SHOULD not) remove the network interface. The "hardware" for this interface is actually within the Kernel... so, again, you can dismiss it as being a source of your problem.
If you removed the hardware for your fibre card, then the output of your ifconfig shows that Linux is not attempting to use it. It also appears from your ifconfig output that your ethernet card is not properly configured (not sure how you got 1.3Kb of data to transmit while it has virtually no configuration)... but at a minimum, sanjooz is correct above -- you have no IP address in it, so it will NOT speak TCP/IP to anything else on the network (save for broadcasts).
I hope this helps shed SOME light
Dan
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by: MiLLeNNiuMPosted on 2009-09-01 at 09:34:17ID: 25233292
To display the interfaces:
ifconfig -a
To disable it:
ifconfig INTERFACE down