From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 16:00:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12517 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11773 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17744; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:58:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dima Dorfman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP Installation In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980404094330.0090cc50@mail.zwb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote: > I'm trying to install TCP/IP on my FreeBSD 2.2.6 box. When I try ifconfig, > it sets the IP, and I can ping it successfully, but, I can't ping an > address outside my box! When I try to ping my webserver that's on the same > network, it fails with a 'sento: permission denied'. I'm logged in as > root, so understand that as a 'hardware won't let you do that'. Also, > noone can ping MY address! You have ipfw running and it's denying your ping. You probably don't have any rules set so everything is being blocked. Set `firewall_type' to "open" in /etc/rc.conf and reboot, or disable ipfw. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message