Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:49:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Dainel \"The Bruce\" Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: begginner question: how can i determin my local IP address? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906091548290.3005-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <016901beb1f5$ad108f00$a33d9bce@g6200>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Dainel "The Bruce" Keller wrote: > I posted a similar message here last night, but I haven't gotten any > response and I never received the message myself so I'm not sure if it got > through, Paitience my son. This is a volunteer list, not one human being. > > I am having some trouble determining my local IP address when I dial into > my > > ISP. I have been getting what I believe is my IP from "netstat -rn", but I > > can not usr this number to telnet, or ftp, or connect to any of the other > > services available on "localhost" or "127.0.0.1". I am not sure if I am > > getting the IP wrong, or if for some reason I cannon connect to myself > > though the IP (perhaps I need to enable some sort of other routing, or > > change my ipfw rules, which are currently set up for natd and are using > > "ipfw add pass all from any to any"). Any help would be greatly > appreciated. You're probably looking at your gateway's IP, not y ours. Are you sing ppp or pppd? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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