it has to do with the way bsd code does routing.  if you want the
local interface to get packets through the look back interface, it
needs to have a route for that explicitly added, eg:

    route add 195.117.150.137 127.0.0.1

this then needs to be removed when the link goes down.

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:50:24PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
>> > 	inet 195.117.150.137 -> 195.117.150.129 netmask 0xffffffff
>> >
>> 
>> it looks similiar to mine, other than the netmask looks wrong (and the mtu is 
>> smaller, but that shouldn't stop it working), what's in your options file?
>netmask was changed by me trying to fix it. default was 0xffffff00.
>mtu is set by me (works better with slow ppp link)
>> Routing tables
>> 
>> Internet:
>> Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
>> default            158.152.1.222      UGS         2    10776   1524  ppp0
>> 10.30.64/24        link#1             UC          0        0   1500  tlp0
>> 127                127.0.0.1          UGRS        0        0  33228  lo0
>> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1        0  33228  lo0
>> 158.152.1.222      194.222.29.33      UH          1        0   1524  ppp0
>> 
>> ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1524
>>         inet 194.222.29.33 -> 158.152.1.222 netmask 0xffffff00
>> 
>> > the same works ok with 10.20.30.1 or 127.0.0.1
>> 
>> perhaps it's some other problem, eg filtering? is the machine meant to 
>> forward connections?  How did you configure ppp?  There's a some stuff in the 
>it's my home machine. no forwarding, only this ppp and ep0.
>configured in standard way.

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