Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:46:51 -0500 From: Carroll Kong <damascus@home.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: en driver and talking to itself Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010124144335.00d26220@netmail.home.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.1.4.0.20010124112130.036fecb0@marble.sentex.ca>
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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 to ping yourself normally. However, over ATM, PVCs are mapped to IPs. PVCs are "locally" known... so the PVC mapping to your own ip address is only the case for the "other" end not for yourself. You could create a little mapping to "loop" back to yourself I would imagine. (I did this once, but I forgot the details) Other than that, yes, it is normal to not be able to ping yourself if you are using Classical IP over ATM. -Carroll Kong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message
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