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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:28:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        HCI <bohandas@best.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: routing with ppp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108022758.246Z-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970107084835.7888B-100000@shellx.best.com>

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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, HCI wrote:

> My system has been running well for quite some time with ppp ondemand.
> Recently I have been adding more - a scenario which is probably seems
> familiar to many.  I noticed during debugging that despite the fact that my
> system works excellently I can't directly ping my tun0 IP address.  When I
> do there is no route found.  If the link to my ISP is up then I can ping
> it, I guess because their router knows where I am.  I can ping my ethernet
> board on the local network by IP Adress, so my machine does have the
> ability to route to its own interfaces. Is the ppp interface different
> than the others or is there a configuration screw up somewhere?

Your point being ... ?  Why would you want to ping it?  If it works, don't
fix it :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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