From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 19:02:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2758937B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20102.mail.yahoo.com (web20102.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3F6743F85 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030801020238.20378.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.66.233.65] by web20102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:02:38 PDT Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:02:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: can't connect to the network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 02:02:39 -0000 i'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on one of my machines. i'm having a really frustrating problem. i cannot connec to anything outside of the interface. i've quarduple checked that the NIC is assigned an address with the same subnet as my network. i can ping the ip address on the NIC, but i can't ping any other device on the network. i had firewall options in my rc.conf, but they are all commented out (quadruple checked that too). any ideas on how i can resolve this matter? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com