strange ping behavior

[Chip]

Aaron Burke wrote:

>>check this out - I have a fbsd 4.6 box on my network, as well as a 
>>fbsd5.1 box and several XP boxes. I have a netgear router/firewall (also 
>>does dhcp and print server) box as well. The 4.6 box is set up on the 
>>network, the netgear dhcp server finds the box, as well as the 5.1 box, 
>>so they are 'talking' on the network. The 4.6 box cannot ping anything. 
>>I get this error -
>>ping: sendto: permission denied
>>    
>>
>I get this message if I have disabled ICMP via the firewall.
>If you have one running, make sure that your allowing ICMP through
>it.
>
>This should be as easy as "ipfw 00001 add allow icmp from any to any".
>
Ping is allowed. All other computers on the network are able to ping out 
to the internet just fine, ,just the one 4.6 box cannot.

>>from any box I try to ping the 4.6 box, and the ping just times out. The 
>>5.1 box works fine. The 4.6 box used to work fine, and was serving web 
>>pages, it has apache/php/mysql installed. It went down when the power 
>>went out, and since has had the connection problems.
>>Any ideas?
>>    
>>
>What kind of connection problems?
>
The problem described above. It's not getting a connection to the 
network. Oddly, the dhcp server did assign it an address and show the 
box on the dhcp addresses list,  once. For some reason the dhcp list of  
devices it has assigned addresses to drops the two fbsd boxes at random. 
But that's another problem I'm not too concerned with right now. I just 
need to 4.6 box to show a connection to the network. I'll change out the 
nic tomorrow and see if that makes any differance.
--
Chip

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