Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:09:23 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Carroll Kong <damascus@home.com> Cc: freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: en driver and talking to itself Message-ID: <5.0.1.4.0.20010124145616.01f89620@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010124144335.00d26220@netmail.home.com> References: <5.0.1.4.0.20010124112130.036fecb0@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 02:46 PM 1/24/01 -0500, Carroll Kong wrote:
>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
Thanks. Actually, that makes sense. I wonder if there is a more optimal
way to route to the interface rather than going through the loopback. It
seems rather inefficient to talk to my Efficient :-)
---Mike
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