From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 6:48: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f291.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.8.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E9DD37B55F for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 06:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from midios4@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 12976 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jul 2000 13:48:01 -0000 Message-ID: <20000706134801.12975.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 195.66.101.66 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 06 Jul 2000 06:48:01 PDT X-Originating-IP: [195.66.101.66] From: "Dimitri T." To: jkonecn@green-mfg.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ping localhost Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:48:01 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You mean your /etc/rc.conf configures the lo0 interface: network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" and you still can't # ping localhost ? Dimitri >Newbie here again... If I can't "ping localhost" (assuming I >should be able to) what should I look at for the problem? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message