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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:24:56 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mph@pobox.com
Subject:   Re: tcpdump and localhost
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990113092456.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <11937.916184598@verdi.nethelp.no>

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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...

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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      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve     <http://www.freebsd.org>;

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