From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 12:01:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14392 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:01:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14365 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:01:37 GMT (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA21418; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:01:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id OAA17608; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:01:32 -0500 (CDT) To: Scott Myron Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: I'm getting closer.. References: <353B0CD9.2D2AE4B0@hsonline.net> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 20 Apr 1998 14:01:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: Scott Myron's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:52:42 +0300" Message-ID: <87pvicgvw3.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Myron writes: > [1 ] > Hi. Ok I think I figured out the problem but I'm not sure... attached to > this is the config file i've used for my new kernel, it has some > "firewall" stuff at the end of it. My problem is I can't connect to the > internet using pppd or user ppp. I try to "ping 127.0.0.1" and it says > "sendto: Permission Denied". or I try to IRC and it just says > "connection refused"(note I AM logged in as root when I try). so could > it be the firewall thing in the kernel? thanks alot. yes! at least, turn of the firewalling in the kernel and see if that fixes the problem, then worry about adding firewalling back in later. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message