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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:47:11 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Just another Joe <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu>
To:        Charles Cox <cscox@jps.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't find localhost
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910062242440.658-100000@njal.ualr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000801bf104b$07388740$482842ab@Stanford.EDU>

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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



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