Raju Mathur forced the electrons to say:
> Pinging your own IP addresses never gets to the interface to which
> those IP's belong. The ethernet/PPP/whatever driver never sees those
> packets since IP hands them over to the loopback interface internally.
>
> In other words, you can never ``ping yourself via ethernet''.
Hmm... never knew this.
A related question: What if I ping from one IP address to another, both of the
same machine? ie, if my eth0 is 192.168.100.1 and my eth0:1 is 192.168.200.1,
then does the card get to see these packets? What if they are eth0 and eth1?
Or even eth0 and ppp0?
In other words, does the kernel first check whether the destination address is
one of its own or not before sending a packet to the correct interface?
Binand
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