From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 16: 1: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wank.necropolis.org (wank.westin16.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D6215798 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by wank.necropolis.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA85177; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) X-Authentication-Warning: wank.necropolis.org: todd owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:06:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman X-Sender: todd@wank.necropolis.org To: Charles Cox Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't find localhost In-Reply-To: <000801bf104b$07388740$482842ab@Stanford.EDU> 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 Have you removed: network_interfaces="lo0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" from /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf? - Todd On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Charles Cox wrote: > Hell(o) everyone, > I have just installed freebsd 3.3 on my Pentium class system. I am still using the generic kernal, although the rebuild is on its way... I have a newly supported (thanks guys) 3c905c-TX NIC. > All of the networking seems to be working fine, with the exception of one thing, and that it I cannot ping myself. I get an ARPresolve failure. I was thinking that there was a DNS problem, since I am using an external server, but that wasn't it. I checked ifconfig -a, and found that my 3c905c is working in half-duplex mode. Could this be the problem? > > Thanks in advance. > Chuck > > ========================================================================= Todd Backman "there are two major products Network Systems Admin that came out of berkeley Flying Crocodile, Inc. lsd and unix. Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be "chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message