From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 19:22:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shasta.eclipse.net (shasta.eclipse.net [207.207.193.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C921715880 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismar@shasta.eclipse.net) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by shasta.eclipse.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA19626; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:22:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrismar@shasta.eclipse.net) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:22:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris To: "Don O'Neil" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why can't I ping my own IP Aliases? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You have to add it to the lo0 interface as well so it knows to loop back to itself. This has been my experiece in the past. For example, in my case i'd do a `ifconfig fxp0 alias xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx` and `ifconfig lo0 alias xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx` and it would then work. Chris On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Don O'Neil wrote: > I've configured a few IP aliases on my 3.3 machine, and they show up under > ifconfig -a... but when I try to ping them from the machine they're defined > on I can't... nor can I telnet or ftp to them. I can ping/telnet/ftp to them > from outside the machine, so I know the traffic is getting routed > correctly... what gives? > > I'm using RealTek 10/100 PCI ethernet cards, FBSD 3.3-Release. > > Thanks! > Don > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message