On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:19:02AM +0600, Denis Zaitsev wrote: > I'm setting up a PPP link between two Linuxes. Let them be called as > server (who receives a call) and client (who calls out). After the > connection has been established, the machines have got the following > interfaces: > > Server (2.4.22): > lo 127.0.0.1 /8 > eth0 192.168.1.1 /24 > ppp1 192.168.1.253 /32 > > Client (2.4.20): > lo 127.0.0.1 /8 > lo:1 192.168.1.4 /24 > ppp0 192.168.1.254 /32 > > And in this configuration no one ping from the server has a reply. What exactly do you ping? Do you ping 192.168.1.254, or 192.168.1.4? In the second case, it is perfectly normal for it not to work (at least not as you expect). /npat -- A picture is worth 10,000 words -- but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10,000 words can be adequately described with pictures. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html