From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 7:14:43 2003 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 CE66637B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:14:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CE943F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:14:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carsten@realityblur.com) Received: from [212.227.126.162] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18jL4S-0001KB-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:14:40 +0100 Received: from [217.235.8.57] (helo=zeus) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18jL4R-0006TV-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:14:40 +0100 From: "c a r s t e n" To: "freebsd questions" Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:15:19 +0100 Reply-To: "c a r s t e n" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2502) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: The ongoing saga of getting DSL up and running... ping: sendto: Permission denied Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i seem to have managed to get my DSL connection established with ppp, finally. the german T-Online how-to page got me up and running with that. when i dial in with ppp, i get a PPP prompt, ie. all caps, which i presume means that i have a functioning connection. now i just have to figure out why i cannot browse, but i haven't started examining this problem yet, because i noticed something strange: at some point ping started returning this error: ping: sendto: Permission denied to my knowledge i am not running a firewall like ipfw (nothing related to firewalls in rc.conf), i *am* logged in as root, and the above error message is even returned when i ping localhost! it does the same for my local network card. i suspect something in my ppp fiddling to have done this, because it did work properly earlier (much earlier). does anyone have any ideas not related to firewalls or not being logged in as root? thanks, c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message