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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:44:07 +0000
From:      Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh forwarding question
Message-ID:  <200709102344.07103.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070910183646.X5423@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200709032258.03656.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200709031637.18901.beech@freebsd.org> <20070910183646.X5423@fledge.watson.org>

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On Monday 10 September 2007 22:39:53 doug wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> >> Yes that was the problem.  I did this:
> >>
> >> ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
> >
> > Make sure you have this line in /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
>
> This is new with 7.0?  I have the above in none of many rc.conf's 4.11 -->

Yes, this is a laptop running FreeBSD 7



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