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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:01:44 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: permission denied in ping?
Message-ID:  <20030121060143.GL49032@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <OE55swMycAJL5cjFpHa00009780@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE55swMycAJL5cjFpHa00009780@hotmail.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 21), Zhang Weiwu said:
> Today I found that I cannot connect to the lan. Logged as root,
> pinging 127.0.0.1 returns:
> 
> Ping 127.0.0.1: sendto: Permission denied
> 
> And pinging whatever address returns the same error message. 

Check your ipfw rules; if ipfw blocks a packet being sent by the local
system, the error gets passed backto the program.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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