Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 12:51:59 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: networking failure Message-ID: <199505181651.MAA21945@kci.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 May 1995 12:04:50 EDT." <9505181604.AA23570@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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+--------- | > Anyhow, I've hardwired my laptop using a null modem to one of my servers to | > connect to the internet using ppp. I noticed that when the connection is | | Here is the important part: there is NO interface which has an address | of 204.117.82.6. Your ICMPs are indeed getting sent to the loopback; | the IP code then discovers that the packets are not intended for this | machine, and since they came through the loopback, they are dropped. | | If you had looked at this key statistic from `netstat -p ip': +--------- Thanks for the response. Indeed, netstat -p ip reports the "right" number of non-forwardable packets. I've kludged it by aliasing the lo0 interface with the IP address also. v.
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