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From: Joe Konecny <jkonecn@green-mfg.com>
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Subject: Re: ping localhost
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Thanks everyone for your help.  My problem was that in manually
editing the rc.conf file I removed the lo0 interface.  Didn't
think I needed it at the time!  :)

Joe

Strebkov Nikolay wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Joe Konecny wrote:
> 
> > Here's what it says...
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.green-mfg.com localhost
> > (etc...)
> >
> > The machine has two nics.  One has a real ip address the other
> > uses 10.0.0.5 with mask of 255.0.0.0.  Also running NAT and IPFW.
> > Everything works well except the ping localhost.  I have noticed
> > that I get a lot or messages on screen saying this...
> > Jul 6 08:37:22 IG88 natd[78]:failed to write packet back (Permission
> > denied)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
>   Take a look at your /etc/rc.firewall. May be you disallowed ICMP
> traffic.


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