On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:18:41PM +0300, Nick Patavalis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:25:20AM +0600, Denis Zaitsev wrote: > > 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). > > > > I ping the PPP peer, of course... And the result is enigmatic, > > though... > > > > If in the setup above you do (from the server): > > ping 192.168.1.254 > > it should work. Yes, it obviously _should_ work. But what (and why) I'm writing about - it _doesn't_. BTW, when eth0=192.168.1.4 is used instead of lo:1 on the client side, all work as it should, so I suspect that it's some lo-specific issue. - : 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
