Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current

[Eric Anderson]

On 02/20/07 17:06, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> My laptop running current of Feb. 9 seems to be unable to configure and
> use a network interface early in the startup process.
> 
> I use Tobias Roth's profile script to determine where my laptop is
> located and to configure it appropriately. This is done by setting an
> address on an interface and trying to ping a known neighbor (usually a
> router). 
> 
> This worked on systems built through Jan. 25, but now attempting to do
> this right after root is mounted RW, I get "sendto: permission denied".
> I get this at any point in the startup prior to netif.  This is in
> single user mode, so this is quite baffling to me, although I realize
> that this method is unorthodox (and certainly not supported), but it
> has always worked and I don't see what broke it.
> 
> Any ideas of what might be going on?


Firewall rules?


Eric