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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
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> > What is lo? What and how do I do for "network configuration"?
>
> lo is your loopback interface. Even if you do not have a network, you
> should have this interface up. It allows clients and servers on the same
> host to communicate with each other.
>
> >From your earlier description, I can assume that you are using linuxconf
> to set up your system.
>
> Do this:
> Config | Networking | Client Tasks | Basic host information
> Set your hostname (use localhost.localdomain for now)
> Adaptor 1 is enabled and Manual. Everything else empty
>
> Config | Networking | Misc | Information about other hosts
> 127.0.0.1 should point to localhost.localdomain with localhost as
> an alias.
>
> Control | Control Panel | Control service activity
> Make sure network is enabled
I had enabled "network" service with "ntsysv" so that network starts at
the boot time itself. From what happened, I learned that network interface
lo should be active for fetchmail and sendmail to work. I had not enabled
it since I use the machine as Desktop and did not see any reason to start
any networking services. But after understanding [a little of] how
Sendmail and Fetchmail are working, I have put enabled "network" service
to start at boot up itself. Thanks to all.
> After you have done all this, check by pinging 127.0.0.1
> If that works, then ping localhost.localdomain (or whatever host.domain
> you used)
> Then ping localhost
> Then telnet localhost 25
>
> If all was successful, then try fetchmail.
Fetchmail works fine now. And if this mail reaches the ML then Sendmail is
also working fine. [Which will mean that I have been able to set the
Masquerading rule properly].
BTW, what is Netmask? And what do the nos. 255.0.0.0 [or something like
that] means.
> Philip
>
Rajen.
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