From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 22:39:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E8F16A419 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:39:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAF713C465 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:39:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8AMdrva074771 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:39:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l8AMdr9A074768 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:39:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:39:53 -0400 (EDT) From: doug To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <200709031637.18901.beech@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20070910183646.X5423@fledge.watson.org> References: <200709032258.03656.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200709040013.14531.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200709040021.35918.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200709031637.18901.beech@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:39:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Subject: Re: ssh forwarding question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@safeport.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:39:55 -0000 On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Monday 03 September 2007, Pollywog said: >> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 00:13:13 Pollywog wrote: >>> On Monday 03 September 2007 23:08:45 Predrag Punosevac wrote: >>>> Pollywog wrote: >>>>> bind: Can't assign requested address >>>>> channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 15901 >>>>> Could not request local forwarding. >>>> >>>> It seems to me that you have a problem with a firewall. Look at >>>> your own message. It looks like port 15901 is closed for >>>> listening. >>> >>> Here is another clue. Something seems to be wrong with the >>> loopback: >>> >>> lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 >>> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 >>> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >>> ripple# ping localhost > >> Yes that was the problem. I did this: >> >> ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 >> > > Make sure you have this line in /etc/rc.conf: > > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" > This is new with 7.0? I have the above in none of many rc.conf's 4.11 --> 6.2.