From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 11: 8:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22AF537B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:08:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko@dynas.se) Received: (qmail 11981 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 19:08:11 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by 172.16.1.1 with SMTP; 7 Mar 2001 19:08:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 1582 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 19:08:08 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 7 Mar 2001 19:08:08 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f27J84K08290; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:08:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200103071908.f27J84K08290@explorer.rsa.com> To: mcglk@serv.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Second attempt] @Home and FreeBSD 4.0. Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <200103071030.CAA38540@itchy.serv.net> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: [...] > gort# dhclient > Listening on BPF/xl0/[MAC addr] > Sending on BPF/xl0/[MAC addr] > Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address > DHCPDISCOVER on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 > DHCPDISCOVER on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 > DHCPOFFER from [new IP address group].1 > DHCPREQUEST on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > DHCPACK from [new IP address group].1 > dhclient: New IP Address(xl0): [new IP address group].253 > dhclient: New Subnet Mask (xl0): 255.255.255.0 > dhclient: New Broadcast Address(xl0): [new IP address group].255 > dhclient: New Routers: [new IP address group].1 > bound to [new IP address group].253 -- renewal in 302400 seconds > gort# _ >Now, I'm new to this, but it looks successful to me. I have a new address Me too... [...] > gort# ping [router IP address] > PING [router IP address] ([router IP address]): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: Permission denied > ping: sendto: Permission denied Did you by any chance install some kind of IP firewall (ipfw, ipfilter)? And is so, did you forget to allow passing packets? It sure looks that way... :-) $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message