From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 5:39:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linif.org (www.linif.org [204.228.204.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BDB837B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dotslash@linif.org) Received: (qmail 24896 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2001 12:39:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cpu563) (195.229.53.55) by www.linif.org with SMTP; 23 Apr 2001 12:39:46 -0000 Message-ID: <01a501c0cbf2$578bfc90$2903010a@atg.altayer.com> From: "dotslash" To: "fq" Subject: can't ping localhost Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:38:10 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have compiled ipfilter in the kernel, applied the ipfilter patch (i'm using fbsd 4.2-release), rebooted and checked. i can ping, ftp, lynx remote hosts fine but i can't ping my localhost. the default policy for ipfilter in my kernel is block all but i've even set a "pass in quick on xl0 all" and "pass out quick on xl0 all" in /etc/ipf.rules and used it without effect. here's the output from netstat -rn: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default xx.xx.xx.xx UGSc 3 0 xl0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 12 lo0 if i ping localhost i get: PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host i know something is wrong as one should be able to ping localhost right? i just couldn't find out what i did that caused this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message