From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 26 14:19:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201AB14C07 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james.wilde@telia.com) Received: from ents02 (t2o73p120.telia.com [62.20.218.240]) by maile.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA13060 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:19:40 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005501bf385c$8f2979f0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> From: "James A Wilde" To: Subject: Ping Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:20:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for all the help I have received either directly or indrectly by = reading others' questions and the answers. Here's one which has me puzzled. How do I turn off ping? One of my two FBSD machines, the one running 2.2.5 can ping other machines but can not be pinged itself nor can I = ping across it. It was originally used as a firewall and I guess ping was = turned off for that reason. If I can learn how one turns off ping, I can presumably reverse the = process and turn it on again now that the machine in question is no longer being = used as a firewall. Thanks in advance. mvh/regards James Wilde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message