ssh forwarding question

[Predrag Punosevac]

Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
>> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 00:13:13 Pollywog wrote:
>>  
>>> On Monday 03 September 2007 23:08:45 Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Pollywog wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> bind: Can't assign requested address
>>>>> channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 15901
>>>>> Could not request local forwarding.
>>>>>         
>>>> It seems to me that you have a problem with a firewall. Look at 
>>>> your own
>>>> message. It looks like port 15901 is closed for listening.
>>>>       
>>> Here is another clue.  Something seems to be wrong with the loopback:
>>>
>>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>>>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>> ripple# ping localhost
>>> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>>> ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
>>> ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
>>> ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
>>> ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
>>> ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
>>> ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
>>>
>>> I have not set up a firewall on this host, so the problem is something
>>> else, perhaps the output above from ifconfig helps.
>>>     
>>
>> Yes that was the problem.  I did this:
>>
>> ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
>>
>> After that I could ping localhost and my VNC connection via SSH 
>> succeeded.
>> Now how do I fix this problem permanently in FreeBSD, by running 
>> sysinstall again and setting the loopback address from there?
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> You can just edit your rc.conf file
>