because both of your routers (loopbacks) by your subnet masking to the router are on the same LAN so when you try to ping they look at local interface.
> -----Original Message----- > From: mindiani mindiani [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 7:02 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cannot ping loopback IP addresses [7:29345] > > I have two routers connected to the same LAN but I cannot ping the > loopback > IP address of each other. from router1 I am not able to ping the loopback > of > router2 and vice-versa. Why ?. > > Here is the sample config of the two routers. > > -------------------------------------- > Router1: > > hostname router1 > interface loopback0 > ip address 100.0.1.1 255.255.255.0 > ! > interface Ethernet0 > ip address 192.100.103.9 255.255.255.0 > no ip-directed broadcast > ! > eigrp 1 > network 192.100.103.0 > network 100.0.0.0 > no auto-summary > > ------------------------------------- > Router2: > > hostname router2 > interface loopback0 > ip address 100.0.1.6 255.255.255.0 > ! > interface Ethernet0 > ip address 192.100.103.10 255.255.255.0 > no ip-directed broadcast > ! > eigrp 1 > network 192.100.103.0 > network 100.0.0.0 > no auto-summary > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=29360&t=29345 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
