Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

[Pollywog]

On Monday 10 September 2007 23:42:43 Pollywog wrote:
> On Monday 10 September 2007 22:21:58 doug wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Pollywog wrote:
> >
> > I am using tightvnc-1.2.9_1 on FreeBSD and the windows versions of
> > tightvnc on win2k and windows XP Pro. On FreeBSD I only have used
> > vncviewer running the server on the winders boxes. I am using FreeBSD
> > 6.2. The only issue I had was the screen quality with XP Pro which went
> > away with the latest version of the tightvnc windows software. On Mac
> > OS/X I am running Vine VNC from Redstone Software.
> >
> > The thing that I have not tried is going from windows/mac to FreeBSD,
> > using ssh for that. Is that the issue for you?
>
> The issue for me was connecting from FreeBSD to FreeBSD, but it is working
> now.  The problem was that on the FreeBSD laptop from which I was
> connecting, the lo0 interface was not actually up.  If I set the IP address
> 127.0.0.1 to lo0 and then tried to connect via SSH, it worked.  I fixed the
> problem with a small edit  of /etc/rc.conf

My 6.2 system never had this problem, only the laptop running FreeBSD 7 had 
the problem.  It is possible I messed something up during the initial install 
or when I updated.