Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:38:17 +0000 From: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> To: Ken Stevenson <ken@allenmyland.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: hosts file Message-ID: <44188949.2060402@redry.net> In-Reply-To: <4418880F.4030001@allenmyland.com> References: <4418442D.3090807@redry.net> <44187E8D.3070104@allenmyland.com> <4418804D.5010803@redry.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20060315151215.02816b58@mail.computinginnovations.com> <441886F0.9000602@redry.net> <4418880F.4030001@allenmyland.com>
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Ken Stevenson wrote:
> eoghan wrote:
>> Derek Ragona wrote:
>> > Try manually adding the address, or uncomment that line and reboot.
>> >
>> > -Derek
>> >
>>
>> Thanks, tried it and still no luck. Cant ping either localhost or
>> 127.0.0.1. Perhaps i should post some details from my boot record, cos
>> I do notice after the dhcp, there are network unreachable messages,
>> but i cannot find where this boot log is stored...
>> On a side not, these problems started when i began to use gnome
>> (2.12.13). Maybe unrelated but i never had these problems using kde,
>> and the boot message of network unreachable seem to have happened at
>> this time too.
>
> Your NIC is not configured correctly.
>
> Can you post the the output of the ifconfig command. Also, there should
> be a line in rc.conf that begins with ifconfig_... Post that line also.
>
Here is the complete output of ifconfig:
nathaniel# ifconfig
fwe0:
flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT>
mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::11:6ff:fe99:d9eb%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
ether 02:11:06:99:d9:eb
ch 1 dma 0
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fee7:e97d%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 192.168.1.34 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:b0:d0:e7:e9:7d
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
nathaniel#
and here is my full rc.conf:
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Sep 30 17:48:53 2005
# Created: Fri Sep 30 17:48:53 2005
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="nathaniel"
ifconfig_xl0="dhcp"
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
ipv6_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
tomcat55_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
moused_type="auto"
#moused_flags="-z 4"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Created: Sun Oct 16 15:29:40 2005
network_interfaces=xl0
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