Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:48:04 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "'dkeller@psln.com'" <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: begginner question: how can I determine my local IP address? Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110596F@site2s1>
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Hrmm.. I think what would be best is if you posted to the list the output of ifconfig -a and netstat -rn. Also, when kind of connection is this, dialup, lan, etc..? Can you ping/telnet from other systems? -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Dainel "The Bruce" Keller [SMTP:dkeller@psln.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:13 PM > To: Christopher Michaels > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: begginner question: how can I determine my local IP address? > > Thanks, I had been looking all over the mailing list and gerneally getting > nowhere. unfortunately I now have a rather larger problem. I can't ping or > telnet to myself by the IP address. I can ping localhost fine, but not my > IP > (206.155.61.1XX). I have tried flushing ipfw and making sure it is not > blocking anything, but I have no idea what to try next. And suggestions > would help greatly. > Thanks again for the help! > Daniel Keller > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> > To: 'Dainel "The Bruce" Keller' <dkeller@psln.com> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail) <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 1:58 PM > Subject: RE: begginner question: how can I determine my local IP address? > > > > ifconfig <interface> > > > > Where <interface> is the name of your network interface. E.g. if I > wanted > > to see my ip for my ppp I would type. > > > > ifconfig tun0 > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dainel "The Bruce" Keller [SMTP:dkeller@psln.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 5:27 PM > > > To: questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: begginner question: how can i determin my local IP address? > > > > > > I posted a similar message here last night, but I haven't gotten any > > > response and I never received the message myself so I'm not sure if it > got > > > through, > > > Thanks > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Daniel Keller <dkeller@psln.com> > > > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 1:39 PM > > > Subject: begginner question: how can i determin my local IP address? > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am having some trouble determining my local IP address when I dial > > > into > > > my > > > > ISP. I have been getting what I believe is my IP from "netstat -rn", > but > > > I > > > > can not usr this number to telnet, or ftp, or connect to any of the > > > other > > > > services available on "localhost" or "127.0.0.1". I am not sure if I > am > > > > getting the IP wrong, or if for some reason I cannon connect to > myself > > > > though the IP (perhaps I need to enable some sort of other routing, > or > > > > change my ipfw rules, which are currently set up for natd and are > using > > > > "ipfw add pass all from any to any"). Any help would be greatly > > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Daniel Keller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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