From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 4:57:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.jakinternet.co.uk (proxy.jakinternet.co.uk [212.41.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8CE37B423 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 04:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.jakinternet.co.uk (smtp.jakinternet.co.uk [212.41.41.61]) by smtp2.jakinternet.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 15CA7A770D for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:53:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from sykes.demon.co.uk ([212.41.38.1]) by smtp.jakinternet.co.uk ; Fri, 08 Sep 2000 12:56:03 -0100 Received: from martinh (martinh [192.168.2.6]) by sykes.demon.co.uk (8.7.6/v3.2) with SMTP id MAA25560 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:57:26 +0100 Message-ID: <017b01c0198b$f37d5640$0602a8c0@melksham> From: "Martin Hillier" To: Subject: What does this mean? Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:57:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have done a tcpdump and... #Ping 192.168.2.110 (to blackhole(freebsd) from sykes ) Linux 12:48:29.869824 sykes > blackhole: icmp: echo request FreeBSD tcpdump: listening on ed0 12:48:29.632586 sykes > blackhole: icmp: echo request 12:48:29.633087 blackhole > sykes: icmp: echo reply I am not getting any icmp packets back to the linux machine. my route on the freebsd box # route get sykes route to: sykes destination: sykes interface: ed0 flags: recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec rttvar hopcount mtu expire 0 0 0 0 0 0 1500 1180 The linux box can 'see' other packets from the freebsd machine to other machines, does this mean the routing is screewed up to the linux box from freebsd? Thanks... ----- Original Message ----- From: Nimrod Mesika To: Martin Hillier Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:39 AM Subject: Re: What does this mean? > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:17:09AM +0100, Martin Hillier wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have been trying to sort out a problem with a freebsd machine and linux, > > when I ping from one to the other I get packets sent but no received > > packets, 100% packet loss. > > It means packets are being sent but no answer is received. You can't > tell if the destination actually received the packets. > > I suggest you run 'tcpdump' on the destination machine just to see > if it receives the packets correctly. Then you can figure out why it > does not send a response. > > > -- > Nimrod. > http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message