On Wednesday, Aug 14, 2002, at 09:46PM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

>What does "netstat -rn -f inet | grep ^127" report?

Here's what the box says:

pingvin# netstat -m -f inet
3 mbufs in use:
        2 mbufs allocated to data
        1 mbufs allocated to packet headers
0/10 mapped pages in use
28 Kbytes allocated to network (2% in use)
0 requests for memory denied
0 requests for memory delayed
0 calls to protocol drain routines


>And I am curious, what does "tcpdump -i lo0" tell you while you ping?
>

And for the tcpdump is just as sad:

pingvin# tcpdump -i lo0 & ping 127.0.0.1
[2] 208
tcpdump: listening on lo0
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data byes
^C
----localhost PING Statistics----
0 packets transmitted, 0 packets received,
pingvin# kill -HUP 208

0 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
[2]    Done                   tcpdump -i lo0

Well, well... I'm downloading 1.5.3 and the sources to compile the kernel. Then I'll burn it on CD and upgrade the box to see if that or a custum kernel will help.

/Daniel