From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 15:50:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADB41543D for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15533; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:49:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Dainel \"The Bruce\" Keller" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: begginner question: how can i determin my local IP address? In-Reply-To: <016901beb1f5$ad108f00$a33d9bce@g6200> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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