From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 23:29:32 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 1FE9316A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from famine.e-raist.com (69-30-69-105.dq1mn.easystreet.com [69.30.69.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1236F43FE3 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:29:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aburke@nullplusone.com) Received: from thebe (12-224-164-145.client.attbi.com [12.224.164.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by famine.e-raist.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAS7TQfL019125; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:29:29 -0800 (PST) From: "Aaron Burke" To: "Chip" , Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:29:21 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3FC6EA79.30104@wiegand.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: strange ping behavior 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, 28 Nov 2003 07:29:32 -0000 > check this out - I have a fbsd 4.6 box on my network, as well as a > fbsd5.1 box and several XP boxes. I have a netgear router/firewall (also > does dhcp and print server) box as well. The 4.6 box is set up on the > network, the netgear dhcp server finds the box, as well as the 5.1 box, > so they are 'talking' on the network. The 4.6 box cannot ping anything. > I get this error - > ping: sendto: permission denied I get this message if I have disabled ICMP via the firewall. If you have one running, make sure that your allowing ICMP through it. This should be as easy as "ipfw 00001 add allow icmp from any to any". > from any box I try to ping the 4.6 box, and the ping just times out. The > 5.1 box works fine. The 4.6 box used to work fine, and was serving web > pages, it has apache/php/mysql installed. It went down when the power > went out, and since has had the connection problems. > Any ideas? What kind of connection problems?