On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you ping the local address of an interface, it doesn't go to the
> interface driver. It is shunted to the loopback device. So pinging a ppp device
> or other adapter only verifies two things: that the device is up and
> configured with the address you are trying to ping, and that the loopback
> device has been configured, and there is a route to it.
>
> If your loopback device or route are down, you get ``network unreachable''
> errors from ping if you ping the local address of any network adapter.
That's fine, but under what circumstances, then, will pinging the local
address fail, but not report any error?
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