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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: networking failure 
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Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 12:51:59 -0400
From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
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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.


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