hosts file

[eoghan]

Ken Stevenson wrote:
> eoghan wrote:
>> Derek Ragona wrote:
>>  > Try manually adding the address, or uncomment that line and reboot.
>>  >
>>  >         -Derek
>>  >
>>
>> Thanks, tried it and still no luck. Cant ping either localhost or 
>> 127.0.0.1. Perhaps i should post some details from my boot record, cos 
>> I do notice after the dhcp, there are network unreachable messages, 
>> but i cannot find where this boot log is stored...
>> On a side not, these problems started when i began to use gnome 
>> (2.12.13). Maybe unrelated but i never had these problems using kde, 
>> and the boot message of network unreachable seem to have happened at 
>> this time too.
> 
> Your NIC is not configured correctly.
> 
> Can you post the the output of the ifconfig command. Also, there should 
> be a line in rc.conf that begins with ifconfig_... Post that line also.
> 

Here is the complete output of ifconfig:

nathaniel# ifconfig
fwe0: 
flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> 
mtu 1500
         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
         inet6 fe80::11:6ff:fe99:d9eb%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         ether 02:11:06:99:d9:eb
         ch 1 dma 0
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
         inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fee7:e97d%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
         inet 192.168.1.34 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
         ether 00:b0:d0:e7:e9:7d
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
         status: active
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
nathaniel#

and here is my full rc.conf:


# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Sep 30 17:48:53 2005
# Created: Fri Sep 30 17:48:53 2005
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="nathaniel"
ifconfig_xl0="dhcp"
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
ipv6_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
tomcat55_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
moused_type="auto"
#moused_flags="-z 4"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.

# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Created: Sun Oct 16 15:29:40 2005
network_interfaces=xl0