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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: Problems connecting to the internet
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>Ping: send to: Permission denied
>Ping: wrote localhost 64 chars, ret=-1

Sounds like you have the firewall option compiled into your kernel, but you
dont have 
firewall="YES"  
in sysconfig....
i.e. you need the
/sbin/ipfw -f flush   


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