strange ping behavior

[Shantanoo Mahajan]

+++ Chip [freebsd] [27-11-03 22:26 -0800]:
| 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
| 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?
| --
| Chip
| 
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as root run the following commands and then try to ping

# kldunload ipfw
# kldunload ipl

Shantanoo