From 4a94f76ec31b96b280e38e7b19ede878129ffc55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rich Lane <rlane@bigswitch.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:59:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] IVSSwitch: bring up lo interface

---
 mininet/node.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mininet/node.py b/mininet/node.py
index 9e93957..52e6896 100644
--- a/mininet/node.py
+++ b/mininet/node.py
@@ -1094,6 +1094,7 @@ class IVSSwitch(Switch):
 
         logfile = '/tmp/ivs.%s.log' % self.name
 
+        self.cmd( 'ifconfig lo up' )
         self.cmd( ' '.join(args) + ' >' + logfile + ' 2>&1 </dev/null &' )
 
     def stop( self ):