From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 13:10: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5B637B56E for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29873 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:09:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:07:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can not ping myself Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007141602470.5734-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two machines box1 and box2 connected via a parallel cable. I can ping from one machine to the other: box1# ping box2 or box2# ping box1 But I can not ping myself: box1# ping box1 or box2# ping box2 It says "no route". These two machines do not connect to the outside network. They run Freebsd 4.0-release. The /etc/hosts contains the following: 192.168.1.0 box1 box1.home.org 192.168.1.1 box2 box2.home.org Any help is appreciated. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message