From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 13:13:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4023337B8DF for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6EKBx699458; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:11:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can not ping myself In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought that .0 is not a valid address? .1 would be valid. // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message