i am building a fedora box and i am trying to work through how to setup virtual interfaces that i stack on the loopback. i use haproxy and want to have the frontend VIPs leverage loopback, such as ...

The loopback interface, since it is a virtual interface, is always operating, which allows stable router operation regardless of the status of the physical interfaces connecting to it.

My computer is freezing during boot at the 'bringing up loopback interface'. I am dual-booting with XP and RH8.0 on a Sony Vaio 650 notebook. I partitioned the drive using Partition Magic 7.0, but ...