Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:16:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current Message-ID: <45DC4633.6060204@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070220230640.CB77945070@ptavv.es.net> References: <20070220230640.CB77945070@ptavv.es.net>
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On 02/20/07 17:06, Kevin Oberman wrote: > My laptop running current of Feb. 9 seems to be unable to configure and > use a network interface early in the startup process. > > I use Tobias Roth's profile script to determine where my laptop is > located and to configure it appropriately. This is done by setting an > address on an interface and trying to ping a known neighbor (usually a > router). > > This worked on systems built through Jan. 25, but now attempting to do > this right after root is mounted RW, I get "sendto: permission denied". > I get this at any point in the startup prior to netif. This is in > single user mode, so this is quite baffling to me, although I realize > that this method is unorthodox (and certainly not supported), but it > has always worked and I don't see what broke it. > > Any ideas of what might be going on? Firewall rules? Eric
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