troubleshooting network settings

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 08/06/2006, at 12:06 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:

> Malcolm Fitzgerald 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)
>>>>>
>>
>> On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> I've not had time to address this problem for a week. Going through 
>> all the advice again I found that this advice is good. That fixes the 
>> problem. Any pointers on getting it done automatically?
>
> What does /etc/rc.conf show for lo0 related things?  (And just to 
> check your defaults as well...)
>
> egrep lo0 /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/*
>
>
> Mine shows:
>
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf:ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"     # default 
> loopback device configuration.

Same here


malcolm