From owner-freebsd-atm Wed Jan 24 8:44:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C78937B698 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0OGhoq30947 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:43:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.0.20010124112130.036fecb0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:37:43 -0500 To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: en driver and talking to itself Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am not sure if this is because its a point to point interface, but from my own machine, I can never ping myself, only the other side. e.g. ifconfig en0 en0: flags=841 mtu 9180 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xfffffffc ruby2% route add -iface 192.168.1.1 -link en0:3.0.03.8e ruby2% ping 192.168.1.2 PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host ^C --- 192.168.1.2 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss But if I do this, ruby2# route add 192.168.1.2 127.0.0.1 add host 192.168.1.2: gateway 127.0.0.1 ruby2# !ping ping 192.168.1.2 PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.047 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.022 ms It works. Is it supposed to work this way ? ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message