From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 16: 1:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alastair.tir.com (alastair.tir.com [216.40.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C55051578B for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from username@tir.com) Received: from jason (port34.mico18.tir.com [216.40.139.127]) by alastair.tir.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA29876; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:00:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000a01bf104e$95e57680$040aa8c0@jason> From: "Jason" To: "Charles Cox" Cc: References: <000801bf104b$07388740$482842ab@Stanford.EDU> Subject: Re: Can't find localhost Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:00:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When you say you couldn't ping yourself is that a 127.0.0.1 or another IP that you assigned to the interface? Half-duplex just means that it is not using bi-directional communication, it shouldn't have an effect the ability to ping the interface. If you could post the ifconfig -a results that would help a bit... -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Cox To: Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: Can't find localhost 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message