Hello! It seems to me there is a bug in recent DFBSD snapshot. #ifconfig re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> inet6 fe80::6631:50ff:fe22:18d0%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 10.172.31.120 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.172.31.255 ether 64:31:50:22:18:d0 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
# netstat -rn -f inet Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 10.172.31.1 UGSc 4 90 re0 10.172.31/24 link#1 UC 1 0 re0 10.172.31.1 00:13:1a:fa:a8:80 UHLW 6 1 re0 1200 10.172.31.120 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 16 re0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 0 lo0 As you can see, system thinks 10.172.31.120 is reachable via re0 not via lo0, so I can't ping myself. When I try to ping myself by real IP such messages appear on ttyv0: Nov 25 18:52:49 vitaly kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo Nov 25 18:52:49 vitaly kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 127.0.0.1 rt Nov 25 18:52:50 vitaly kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo Nov 25 18:52:50 vitaly kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 127.0.0.1 rt Nov 25 18:52:51 vitaly kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo Nov 25 18:52:51 vitaly kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 127.0.0.1 rt -- Vitaly