From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 20:44:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc.weber.edu (cc.weber.edu [137.190.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE55D14C0E for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlewis@cc.weber.edu) Received: from offcampus.weber.edu ([137.190.3.228]) by cc.WEBER.EDU (PMDF V5.1-12 #7039) with SMTP id <01JGTV3QTGMO8Y87AC@cc.WEBER.EDU> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:44:51 MST Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:44:43 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) From: Jason Lewis Subject: Re: Can't find localhost In-reply-to: <000801bf104b$07388740$482842ab@Stanford.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-X-Sender: jlewis9@gwmta1.weber.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can you ping 127.0.0.1 ? Half-duplex does not have anything to do with this. Do you have a lo0 device list under ifconfig -a ? 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message