Re: (partly) SOLVED: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Why would a local interface, reported as up in ifconfig, not respond to a ping of its own IP address? The tun0 reported below

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: uucp .. how quaint :) Yep, but running over ssh since agora no longer

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
Had a quick look at http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ but don't get whether it, or you, are configuring ppp? ie, does vpnc make or mess with /etc/ppp/ppp.conf? Or otherwise invoke ppp directly itself? Neither, I suspect. Looking at the ppp(8) manpage, it looks as if both vpnc and

(partly) SOLVED: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Why would a local interface, reported as up in ifconfig, not respond to a ping of its own IP address? The tun0 reported below doesn't, ... $ ifconfig -a ... tun0:

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: uucp .. how quaint :) ... tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1412 inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe28:ad4f%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-03 Thread perryh
Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: uucp .. how quaint :) Yep, but running over ssh since agora no longer has modems. How's that for a mix of ancient and modern

tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-02 Thread perryh
Why would a local interface, reported as up in ifconfig, not respond to a ping of its own IP address? The tun0 reported below doesn't, and I have no idea how to debug it. (I've overwritten the two most- significant octets of its IP address, which is Class B, so as not to publicly identify the

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Why would a local interface, reported as up in ifconfig, not respond to a ping of its own IP address? The tun0 reported below doesn't, and I have no idea how to debug it. (I've overwritten the two most- significant octets of its IP

Re: tun0 not responding to ping

2009-01-02 Thread perryh
Ian Smith nimnet.asn.au!smi...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: ... tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1412 inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe28:ad4f%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 -- ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 netmask 0x Opened by PID 24635