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On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:17, Edoardo Causarano wrote:
> su-2.05a# ping 192.168.1.1
> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: No route to host
>
> I can't ping my own interfaces (there's alsto an external one) and even 
> postfix can't find a route to hit itself on the external iface. I'm a 
> bit lost on this, what have I done wrong? Also, I don't know if it's 
> related but the machine (you've guessed it... mailserver & fw/gw) 
> sometimes becomes unresponsive on one of the two rl's and the only 
> solution is to reboot. Anyone has some hints for me?
> 

Check to see if ipfw/ipf is enabled.

Andy