From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 10:53:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00786 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:53:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00774 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:52:54 GMT (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA12560; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:52:47 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199804221752.MAA12560@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: help! I can't ping my machine from my machine To: mike@chaski.com (michael dorin) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:52:46 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804221134.LAA20927@chaski.com> from michael dorin at "Apr 22, 98 11:34:24 am" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, michael dorin said: > > Help! > I've done something without knowing it and now I can't ping or > communicate at all on my machine internally. > > I can telnet out. > I can telnet in. > > I just can do a ping localhost > > or a ping localipaddress... > > Any thoughts? > > -Mike What's ifconfig -a and netstat -rn say. You've either messed up the route to the local net or turned off the ethernet interface. Does re-booting fix it (is it possible?)? -- "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." --James Joyce (1882-1941) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message