From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 17 7:45:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu26-228-058.nc.rr.com [66.26.228.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531CC37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 07:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5HEjJt26700; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:45:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:45:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Ronaldsoft Network Cc: Subject: Re: help In-Reply-To: <000801c0f730$d67274d0$6c622dcb@JRICE> Message-ID: <20010617104321.K26682-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you have the output of ifconfig -a? Do you have a firewall running on this machine? Please send more info regarding your ping problem. As for connecting to a proxy server, I guess it depends on the application you want to run. Netscape, for example, has the ability to connect to proxies via the Edit->Preferences window. Joe Clarke On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Ronaldsoft Network wrote: > hi. > well i can ping other host's but cant ping my own ip address?? i have read the documentation a number of times. > and also can i connect my freebsd box to a proxy server if i can. (how)? > > Thanks. > > - Ronald. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message