hosts file

[Ken Stevenson]

eoghan wrote:
> 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
> 
I don't have a line in my rc.conf for "ifconfig_lo0" and I don't have 
a line for "network_interfaces=..." Are you sure you need them? Try 
commenting out those two lines then restarting the network or rebooting.

-- 
Ken Stevenson
Allen-Myland Inc.