From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 30 03:53:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 9CE0E16A539 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 03:53:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F4D43D58 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 03:53:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: (qmail 22366 invoked by uid 507); 30 May 2006 13:53:29 +1000 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 30 May 2006 13:53:29 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <447AF91C.10106@daleco.biz> References: <447A662C.9050708@daleco.biz> <8f8af4261e016d4487bb94952df8157c@pacific.net.au> <447AF91C.10106@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:53:29 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Re: troubleshooting network settings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 03:53:34 -0000 On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >> On 29/05/2006, at 1:10 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >>> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >>>> I am running freeBSD v6.0 security on a home network behind an adsl >>>> router. I cannot connect to localhost from a browser (apache is >>>> running!) >>>> I cannot connect to localhost port 22 (KPackage tries to use ssh) >>>> What can cause these problems? How can I troubleshoot them? >>>> I am very new to freeBSD, so part of my question is "where do I >>>> begin?". I have a copy of Complete freeBSD beside me but can't get >>>> the magical incantations right. Suggestions appreciated. >>> >>> New to "Nix like" systems in general, or just new to FreeBSD? >>> >>> Here are a few suggestions ... no "magic bullet" here, though: >>> >>> First, check to see if the interface exists: >>> >>> $ ifconfig lo0 >>> lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 >>> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >>> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 >>> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 >>> >>> So, we have a loopback interface (in this case on both IPv4 >>> and IPv6). >> bsd-box# ifconfig -a >> rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 >> options=8 >> inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe08:e02a%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 >> inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> ether 00:e0:4c:08:e0:2a >> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) >> status: active >> plip0: flags=108810 mtu 1500 >> lo0: flags=8008 mtu 16384 > > Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ be set > up correctly. > > `ifconfig lo0 -inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0` ?? > > > If that fixes it, then we have to figure out *why* it's not being > doing automatically. Problem during init/rc, most likely ... weird. Running that command returns this: ifconfig: -inet: bad value malcolm