Subject: Re: linux emul & net config
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Mario Kemper <magick@bundy.zhadum.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/28/2002 18:19:26
Germano Cesari <germano.cesari@tesoro.it> writes:

> Im trying to install either Mozilla 1.2 -or- Netscape 7.0 under linux
> emulation on a NetBSD 1.6 box.
> 
> In both cases the installation procedure worked fine (and now I have
> both of em under /emul/linux), now, when I start mozilla or Netscape I
> get the error: "connection refused while contacting host: xyz.com"...
> 
> I already had this problem with Netscape 7.0, I thought installing
> Mozilla 1.2/Linux would have provided a workaround for this, but seems
> like the network access problem is not related to Netscape itself, but
> more probably to the Linux emulation layer... Am I missing something in
> order to make linux emulation correctly access the network???
> 
> Im currently using Mozilla 1.0 binary package for NetBSD and everything
> works fine (but no plugins)... any ideas?
> 
From the pkg MESSAGE:

        Please note that if you have INET6 enabled in your kernel, you
        will need to set net.inet6.ip6.v6only = 0, using sysctl(8).

-- 
Mario Kemper
magick@zhadum.de