Subject: Re: linux emul & net config
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Germano Cesari <germano.cesari@tesoro.it>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/28/2002 18:29:05
AAAHHH!!!!!! at last!!!

Ive been strugglin with this error for 2 months!!

Dont understand what net.inet6.ip6.v6only IS and WHY it was set to 1,
but Ill proceed with further investigations asap...

works anyway! thnx a lot! :-)

Germano

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:19, Mario Kemper wrote:
> 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