From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 19:43:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57AC16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A20F43FBF for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:43:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A5FAA13400E4; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:43:54 -0800 Message-ID: <3FC815CA.1030105@wiegand.org> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:43:06 -0800 From: Chip User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael W. Oliver" References: <3FC71197.9050207@wiegand.org> <20031128124512.GA87947@gargantuan.com> In-Reply-To: <20031128124512.GA87947@gargantuan.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Aaron Burke cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange ping behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:43:20 -0000 Michael W. Oliver wrote: >I suspect that what Aaron meant was that there is a local filtering >problem on the 4.6 machine. When you try to ping another device from >the 4.6 box, you get 'permission denied' (typical of local blocking via >ipfw). Are you running ipfw on the 4.6 machine? As root, issue the >command 'ipfw show' and you will know for sure. > > That was it. I forgot that some time back I had recompiled the kernel with firewall enabled, then moved on to other things and forgot all about it. Thanks for the tip. -- Chip