Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:43:55 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re[3]: Host unable to ping/access its own IPs Message-ID: <00e201c12756$5d7f9e80$57a145ca@rino> References: <20010817141401.C9633-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <89159908005.20010817192806@buz.ch>
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this sounds like the almost the same situation i was in months ago. i was linux and a 3Com vortex NIC then and i'm having problems pinging some hosts (which are of course up and running as pinged from some other hosts). turned out to be some switch config problem and PIX. have you rechecked your switch? just a wild guess. Rino > > terface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > There was a post some time ago explaining why. > > Any WTF did it work for me the last couple of months on another > machines with the proper netmask then? > > Remember: documenting a bug doesn't fix it (else MS soft would be > much more stable....) > > But the above isn't correct. It strikes me for any two IPs from the > same subnet, not only for such that are in the same subnet as the > first one. > > > Best regards, > Gabriel > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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