[OpenAFS] buserver barfs on "localhost" installation

[Neulinger, Nathan]

I wonder. Does afs exclude 'dummy' interfaces? If not, you could just
modprobe dummy, and ifconfig dummy0 as if it were a real network device.


-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick J Brashear [mailto:shadow@dementia.org]=20
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:09 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] buserver barfs on "localhost" installation
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> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Michael Martinez wrote:
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> > You must have an active link carrier signal on the ethernet=20
> interface to run Open-AFS. Loopback addresses are excluded=20
> from consideration, so you cannot "trick" the system by using=20
> only a loopback interface.
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> > Your eth0 link light, must be on.
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> I trick my laptop all the time by ifconfig'ing my hard=20
> interface up as a
> real IP address despite no network.
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> It depends on the OS. In Linux, no link is needed, you can have an
> interface with a real non-loopback address and no network=20
> behind it, and
> it will and does work.
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> -D
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