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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:06:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Todd Backman <todd@flyingcroc.net>
To:        Charles Cox <cscox@jps.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't find localhost
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061602490.83468-100000@wank.necropolis.org>
In-Reply-To: <000801bf104b$07388740$482842ab@Stanford.EDU>

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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
> 
> 

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