On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Javier Viguera<[email protected]> wrote: > Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> >> Yes, it's normal. >> >> Think about it. When you ping *yourself*, >> do ping packets really go over the physical wire? >> >> Of course not. They exist only inside your computer. >> >> In other words, they go over _loopback interface_! > > Makes sense what you say, i understand now. > > One minor thing, though. > > It seems that the "normal" ping from my PC (iputils-ping package - Ubuntu > Hardy) does show the echo replies, while busybox ping does not show them: > > My eth1 is 192.168.105.1 > > busybox.git$ sudo ./busybox -I eth1 192.168.105.1 > PING 192.168.105.1 (192.168.105.1): 56 data bytes > > --- 192.168.105.1 ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > busybox.git$ ping -I eth1 192.168.105.1 > PING 192.168.105.1 (192.168.105.1) from 192.168.105.1 eth1: 56(84) bytes of > data. > 64 bytes from 192.168.105.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.030 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.105.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.024 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.105.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.024 ms > > --- 192.168.105.1 ping statistics --- > 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
Can you send me the strace output of Ubuntu's ping? strace -o LOGFILE -s99 ping -c3 -I eth1 192.168.105.1 -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
