From owner-freebsd-net Fri Sep 6 12:20:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECD637B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stono.cs.cofc.edu (stono.cs.cofc.edu [153.9.17.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF43043E65 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:20:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmy@cs.cofc.edu) Received: from [153.9.17.27] (burton.cs.cofc.edu [153.9.17.27]) by stono.cs.cofc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g86IvKV32317 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:57:21 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jimmy@stono.cs.cofc.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3D78D612.1070804@expertcity.com> References: <3D78D612.1070804@expertcity.com> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:24:33 -0400 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: "James B. Wilkinson" Subject: Re: permission denied on connect requests? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why, yes, I do. I was planning to use dummynet later in the semester, and that requires ipfw. Thanks to all who replied. I was probably never going to figure that out. One wonders if the error message could be changed to give a better clue? Thanks, again. >do you have ipfw installed? do an 'ipfw list'; you're probably >blocking your own traffic. > > >James B. Wilkinson wrote: >>Some of the machines in my student lab have a problem connecting to >>others. The error messages vary only slightly, depending on which >>program one tries to use. Here's a sample: >> >> >>ping: sendto: Permission denied >>telnet: connect to address 192.168.0.31: Permission denied >>ftp: connect: Permission denied >> >>I'm running all these programs as root. ifconfig -a gives output >>that looks good to me: the interface is up and the network and >>submask numbers are correct. All the machines have the same network >>number. I have no idea where the "Permission denied" could be >>coming from. Can somebody give me a clue? -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 If there is one word to describe me, that word would have to be "profectionist". Any form of incompitence is an athema to me. Metathesis??? Don't ax me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message