Re: PPP and virtual lo: routing problem

[Denis Zaitsev (zzz@anda.ru)]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:01:21AM +0200, Jean-Francois Dive wrote:
> relace your lo ip address 192.168.1.4/24 by 192.168.1.4/32 and better
> put some routes as well.

So, do you mean that my situation is ok?  But why?  If we have some
<real> interfacein place of lo:1 (say, eth0), than all work as
expected...


> On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 07:19, Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> > I'm setting up a PPP link between two Linuxes.  Let them be called as
> > server (who receives a call) and client (who calls out).  After the
> > connection has been established, the machines have got the following
> > interfaces:
> > 
> > Server (2.4.22):
> >         lo      127.0.0.1       /8
> >         eth0    192.168.1.1     /24
> >         ppp1    192.168.1.253   /32
> > 
> > Client (2.4.20):
> >         lo      127.0.0.1       /8
> >         lo:1    192.168.1.4     /24
> >         ppp0    192.168.1.254   /32
> > 
> > And in this configuration no one ping from the server has a reply.  As
> > well as any other kind of connection from the server waits forever for
> > the reply.  (There are no firewall at the any side.)
> > 
> > And the problem seems to be with lo:1.  If I remove it, or if I change
> > its address to 192.168.2.x, all becomes ok.
> > 
> > So, what does it mean?  Is it just my mistake or something like a
> > kernel (?) bug?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
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