From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 11:40: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.visi.com (tele.visi.com [209.98.98.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DDB151FD for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from Merlin.visi.com (170-108.dynamic.visi.com [209.98.170.108]) by mail-out.visi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BF131F886; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:37:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990422134103.007b1210@mail.trlinks.com> X-Sender: rhavenn@mail.trlinks.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:41:03 -0500 To: Andrew Johns From: Rhavenn StormWing Subject: Re: Ping Question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <371ECD28.B9F8EE20@TurnAround.com.au> References: <3.0.6.32.19990421223459.007977f0@mail.trlinks.com> <3.0.6.32.19990421235421.0079c6a0@mail.trlinks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:18 PM 4/22/99 +1000, you wrote: >Rhavenn StormWing wrote: >> >> Not to bother you, but I have: >> >> firewall="open" >> >> in rc.conf? Shouldn't that let everything in and out? >> > >Yes, it should...hmm....is your interface up? Check with ifconfig -a > I checked with ifconfig, my ppp0 device is there(and it changes when I get dialed in), my lo0 device is there with a inet 127.0.0.1 . Even when I am not dialed up, I can't ping localhost or the IP for localhost. It still gives me the ping: sendto: permission denied. Any more ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message