From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 13 00:17:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23616 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:17:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23609 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:17:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.43]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3333; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:17:15 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <11937.916184598@verdi.nethelp.no> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:24:56 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: sthaug@nethelp.no Subject: Re: tcpdump and localhost Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mph@pobox.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Jan-99 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: >> OK, and if I ping the IP address associated with the NIC then it gets >> put >> on the wire right? > > If you ping the IP address associated with the NIC from *the host > itself*, > it won't be put on the wire. You have to ping it from another host. Aha thanks... So I needed to tcpdump lo0 and ping fxp0's IP address... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message