Subject: Strange network behaviour with -current
To: #List NetBSD current users <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/29/1998 02:58:07
All of a sudden, it seems that I am unable to ping the IP addresses
assigned to the local end of my ppp0 interface.  I can still ping the
addresses of other interfaces on the box (ex0 and lo0).  This used to
work under 1.3H.

Anyone got any ideas what changed?

pc1:paul {101} ifconfig -a
ex0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:10:4b:73:06:34
        media: Ethernet 10baseT
        status: active
        inet 209.182.147.65 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 209.182.147.71
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32976
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 205.162.63.134 --> 209.182.128.1 netmask 0xffffffff 
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
pc1:paul {102} ping 205.162.63.134
PING pc1.whooppee.com (205.162.63.134): 56 data bytes
^C
----pc1.whooppee.com PING Statistics----
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
pc1:paul {103} ping 209.182.147.65
PING pc1.whooppee.com (209.182.147.65): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.182.147.65: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.109 ms
64 bytes from 209.182.147.65: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.160 ms
64 bytes from 209.182.147.65: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.161 ms
^C
----pc1.whooppee.com PING Statistics----
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.109/0.143/0.161 ms
pc1:paul {104} ping 127.0.0.1
PING localhost.value.net (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.104 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.159 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.163 ms
^C
----localhost.value.net PING Statistics----
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.104/0.142/0.163 ms
pc1:paul {105} 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Paul Goyette      | PGP DSS Key fingerprint:   | E-mail addresses:        |
| Network Engineer  |   BCD7 5301 9513 58A6 0DBC |  paul@whooppee.com       |
| and kernel hacker |   91EB ADB1 A280 3B79 9221 |  paul.goyette@ascend.com |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------