From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 21: 6:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3BB15916 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07605; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:12:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <371E9FD7.AF697391@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:04:39 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rhavenn StormWing Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ping Question References: <3.0.6.32.19990421223459.007977f0@mail.trlinks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rhavenn StormWing wrote: > > I sent this over to the newbies list..but then remembered no questions over > there(sorry for those of you over their too...). Here is my problem(I think > pretty simple: > > I just got pppd to work right and now when I try and ping > anything(including the localhost) I get this error: > > ping: sendto: Permission denied (this is repeated over and over) > Sounds to me like you have IPFirewall on and it's not allowing icmp outgoing. You'll need to modify your ipfw configuration to allow icmp packets through (don't forget - both directions). -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message