Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:37:15 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: Re: ssh forwarding question Message-ID: <200709031637.18901.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200709040021.35918.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <200709032258.03656.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200709040013.14531.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200709040021.35918.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
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On Monday 03 September 2007, Pollywog said: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 00:13:13 Pollywog wrote: > > On Monday 03 September 2007 23:08:45 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > > Pollywog wrote: > > > > bind: Can't assign requested address > > > > channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 15901 > > > > Could not request local forwarding. > > > > > > It seems to me that you have a problem with a firewall. Look at > > > your own message. It looks like port 15901 is closed for > > > listening. > > > > Here is another clue. Something seems to be wrong with the > > loopback: > > > > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 > > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > > ripple# ping localhost > > PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes > > ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address > > ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address > > ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address > > ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address > > ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address > > ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address > > > > I have not set up a firewall on this host, so the problem is > > something else, perhaps the output above from ifconfig helps. > > Yes that was the problem. I did this: > > ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > > After that I could ping localhost and my VNC connection via SSH > succeeded. Now how do I fix this problem permanently in FreeBSD, by > running sysinstall again and setting the loopback address from > there? Make sure you have this line in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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