From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 18: 2:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D082154BA for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:02:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA01525; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:02:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903310202.VAA01525@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: I cannot ping myself (DHCP+Cable Modem) In-Reply-To: <37015083.8E28027E@videotron.ca> from Malartre at "Mar 30, 99 05:30:27 pm" To: malartre@videotron.ca (Malartre) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:02:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Malartre wrote, > $ ifconfig -a > ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 216.113.2.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 216.113.2.255 > ether 00:e0:29:13:56:8c > lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 Looks good. > $ ping 216.113.2.4 > PING 216.113.2.4 (216.113.2.4): 56 data bytes > ^C > --- 216.113.2.4 ping statistics --- > 9 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss My first thought is, "F*ckin' weird!" But that is not too helpful. What are the results of trying, $ traceroute 216.113.2.4 And if that is not elucidating, # ping 216.113.2.4 > /dev/null & # tcpdump Does the 127.0.0.1 loopback work? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message