troubleshooting network settings

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>> On 29/05/2006, at 1:10 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>>> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>>>> I am running freeBSD v6.0 security on a home network behind an adsl 
>>>> router. I cannot connect to localhost from a browser (apache is 
>>>> running!)
>>>> I cannot connect to localhost port 22 (KPackage tries to use ssh)
>>>> What can cause these problems? How can I troubleshoot them?
>>>> I am very new to freeBSD, so part of my question is "where do I 
>>>> begin?". I have a copy of Complete freeBSD beside me but can't get 
>>>> the magical incantations right. Suggestions appreciated.
>>>
>>> New to "Nix like" systems in general, or just new to FreeBSD?
>>>
>>> Here are a few suggestions ... no "magic bullet" here, though:
>>>
>>> First, check to see if the interface exists:
>>>
>>> $ ifconfig lo0
>>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>>>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>>
>>> So, we have a loopback interface (in this case on both IPv4
>>> and IPv6).
>> bsd-box# ifconfig -a
>> rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>>         inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe08:e02a%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>>         inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>         ether 00:e0:4c:08:e0:2a
>>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>         status: active
>> plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
>> lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>
> Hmm, is that all?  Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ be set
> up correctly.
>
> `ifconfig lo0 -inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0`  ??
>
>
> If that fixes it, then we have to figure out *why* it's not being
> doing automatically.  Problem during init/rc, most likely ... weird.


Running that command returns this:

ifconfig: -inet: bad value


malcolm