On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:32:31PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin quoting Stephen Cope as of Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:22:29AM +1200:
> > Lan Barnes wrote:
> [snip]
> > >I doubted it was, but sometimes when you say later you get the "that's a
> > >pretty important piece of information to be sitting on" spank.
> >
> > Especially since out-of-the-box firewall rules may have changed
> > between versions.
> >
> > Have you tried tcpdump? That'll let you know which packets are flying where.
>
> It will at least let us verify that the ICMP packets are going where we
> _think_ they are going...
>
> Hm. Could it be two machine with the same IP address?
>
> Lan, how many machines, total, are on the subnet?
>
Usually 3, never more than 5.
> (And do an ifconfig -a on each machine to verify that it hasn't
> decided to use two or more ip addresses.)
>
I have no idea how that would happen nor why it wouldn't screw up ping,
too. But I can run it when I get home.
Here's linus:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:E1:7A:89
inet addr:192.168.100.3 Bcast:192.168.100.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:4ff:fee1:7a89/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3504486 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
TX packets:1444635 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1146861519 (1.0 GiB) TX bytes:448717571 (427.9 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xcc00
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:313765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:313765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:98408445 (93.8 MiB) TX bytes:98408445 (93.8 MiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Seems to me Linus has one address -- same one it's always had -- on eth0
and one on lo. Looks pretty normal to me.
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Lan Barnes
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