Have you tried ifconfig lo to see if the local interface is up? Also, you can try ifup [interface] (i.e. ifup lo) Hope that helps. Paul Albertine -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Divinefire Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cannot ping localhost After a long time of being offline with my mandrake 7.2 I finally reached the net. Before this I could talk to my box fine. Now I can surf, telnet and ftp to my hearts delight, but I cannot ping myself; through inet ip or 127.0.0.1 . others can telnet me, I can telnet others - but not myself. pinging localhost just hangs pinging my inet comes up with the error "sento: No buffer space available" same with the telnet I have trudged through most of what I know (that isn't a lot really) I've disabled the firewall - restarted - nothing (its re-enabled atm) reset eth0 - nothing everything is fine in windows (that a change eh?) anybody with any ideas ? -Divinefire
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