On Sad, 2005-01-15 at 12:31, Jan De Luyck wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 23:47, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > That arp is perfectly OK. > > The routing table will cause the icmp echo packet to go from 10.216.0.xx > > to 10.0.24.xx via the 10.0.24.x network. > > The icmp echo response will return via the 10.0.22.x network back to the > > 10.216.0.xx network. > > So the paths in each direction are different. > > Yes, but unfortunately I never ever receive the icmp echo reply, and the arp > table always lists the ip as "incomplete". Nothing I try to do to with that > interface (ssh/...) ever works. If the directions are different does your distro enable rp_filter by default - that may cause such problems. You might also want to ask on netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx - the network layer list - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html