[mythtv-users] Is network required for single frontend/backend machine?

[test]

Brian Wood wrote:
> test wrote:
>
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>> I am simply verifying that I can ping my router but not my windows box. 
>> I also am able to ping this Ubuntu box from itself.
>> Both FE and BE are on the same machine and I can not figure out how to 
>> make things work. I think that the FE and BE need to communicate with 
>> each other even though they are in the same box. But when I click on 
>> "test connection" I get a "failed" message.
>>
>> Since I CAN ping this Ubuntu box from itself, shouldn't frontend and 
>> backend be able to communicate
>>     
> It depends.
>
> Are you trying to communicate through the loopback interface(127.0.0.1)?
> Run ifconfig and see if you have an active lo interface, you should be
> able to talk to the DB through that, as long as the addresses are set up
> correctly.
>
> beww
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Here is my ifconfig result...


ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:7d:2b:a1:df           UP 
BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
         Interrupt:222 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback           inet addr:127.0.0.1  
Mask:255.0.0.0
         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:1204 (1.2 KB)  TX bytes:1204 (1.2 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:29:6a:02:91           inet 
addr:192.168.2.3  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         inet6 addr: fe80::221:29ff:fe6a:291/64 Scope:Link
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
         RX packets:8088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:4525 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:11546859 (11.5 MB)  TX bytes:342583 (342.5 KB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-21-29-6A-02-91-32-39-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00           UP BROADCAST 
RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)