On 8/18/06, Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:40:03AM -0400, Charles Wright wrote: > > However the guest can't ping itself: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ping -c 1 192.168.42.2 > > PING 192.168.42.2 (192.168.42.2) 56(84) bytes of data. > > > > --- 192.168.42.2 ping statistics --- > > 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms > > > > Any suggestions? > > Do you have a loopback interface? (I think this probably doesn't > matter, though) > Actually, it does matter. I noticed the same weird behaviour until I configured the loopback interface. Don't know why the loopback device is required, though. But it seems that when pinging the host itself, no packets actually leave the host, so there has to be some kind of a shortcut inside the TCP/IP stack which apparently uses the loopback device for local pings.
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