From owner-freebsd-atm Wed Jan 24 12:21:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9342037B699 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:21:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0OKFVV83910; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:15:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.0.20010124145616.01f89620@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:09:23 -0500 To: Carroll Kong From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: en driver and talking to itself Cc: freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010124144335.00d26220@netmail.home.com> References: <5.0.1.4.0.20010124112130.036fecb0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:46 PM 1/24/01 -0500, Carroll Kong wrote: >At 11:37 AM 1/24/01 -0500, you wrote: >>I am not sure if this is because its a point to point interface, but from >>my own machine, I can never ping myself, only the other side. >> >>It works. Is it supposed to work this way ? >> >> ---Mike > >Yes. I am not 100% sure.... but it might be because normally an ARP >address is associated with the IP address. So there is some kind of >mapping for you Thanks. Actually, that makes sense. I wonder if there is a more optimal way to route to the interface rather than going through the loopback. It seems rather inefficient to talk to my Efficient :-) ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message