freeswitch is running on 192.168.1.1 by command freeswitch.

file "freeswitch/autoload_configs/event_socket.conf.xml" has been edited 

  <param name="listen-ip" value="172.26.1.47"/>

running "fs_cli -H 192.168.1.1 -d 7" from other machine e.g. 192.168.1.2 on lan is successfull.

running "fs_cli -H 192.168.1.1 -d 7" from same machine i.e. 192.168.1.1 hangs.

Regards,

Akhil