freebsd cable disconnected problem

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu May 26 13:28:21 PDT 2005


On May 26, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Diogo Della wrote:
> It is very strange: if a put the initial ip address of the  
> interface and disconnect the cable "ssh localhost" does not work.  
> But, if a let this running and put the cable again, "ssh localhost"  
> works.
>
> What is going on? FreeBSD need to be connected and with the same ip  
> address I set at installation for the network deamon to work?

Does localhost actually go to IP 127.0.0.1?
Do you have a localhost route, check "netstat -nr"...?

You can also take a look at what your daemons are binding to via:
"netstat -anp TCP | grep LISTEN".  Are they binding to *.port or  
otherwise?

-- 
-Chuck



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