create loopback service

The loopback service handles the basic settings for the loopback
interface, regardless of the network manager you are using.

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init.d/loopback.in b/init.d/loopback.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e5cc118b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init.d/loopback.in
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+#!@SBINDIR@/runscript
+# Copyright (c) 2013 William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
+# Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
+
+description="Configures the loopback interface."
+
+depend()
+{
+	return 0
+}
+
+start()
+{
+	if [ "$RC_UNAME" = Linux ]; then
+		ebegin "Bringing up network interface lo"
+		if type ip > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+			ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 dev lo brd + scope host
+			ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope host
+			ip link set lo up
+		else
+			ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
+			route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 127.0.0.1
+		fi
+	else
+		ebegin "Bringing up network interface lo0"
+		ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
+		route -q add -inet 127.0.0.0 -netmask 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1
+	fi
+	eend $?
+}
+
+stop()
+{
+	return 0
+}