From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 16:14:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA21835 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21606 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.8.0/8.7.3) id IAA23538; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:43:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:43:20 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199609262313.IAA23538@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: sandy@novanet.net.au (Sandhya), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking problem with re-built kernel : HELP X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <324ADD41.5F75@novanet.net.au> you wrote: : Hi, : The kernel I have rebuilt boots fine. On booting the new kernel, I can see the ed0 : interface is active (ifconfig ed0). But if I try to ping anything I get the following : error : : ping : sendto : Permission denied [cut] : options IPFIREWALL #firewall If you'd bothered to read the FAQ you would have noted that since 2.1.5-RELEASE (or a little bit before in the 2.1-stable tree) the default action for firewalling is to deny all. The reasons for this are non-debatable, and the solution is to initilise your firewalling rules on startup (check in /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc.firewall??) Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!