From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 20:48: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B8C14D0B for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:48:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from access54.mod1.ualr.edu (access54.mod1.ualr.edu [144.167.7.54]) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06497; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:49:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:47:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Just another Joe X-Sender: joe@njal.ualr.edu 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 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 > > Have you checked "http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/errata.html"? There is a known problem with the loop-back device. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message