On Tue, 25 May 1999 Paul Goyette writes:
>So, why would you tell your machine that "the next hop to ftp.netbsd.org
>is reached via my loopback interface?"  You've just told it to send all
>packets out the lo0, which of course won't do anything at all!
>
>On Tue, 25 May 1999, Paul Newhouse wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I probably should have included the output from netstat -nr:
>> 
>>     Internet:
>>     Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
>>     default            205.219.89.41      UGS        10   299865      -  de1
>>     24                 24.1.4.202         UGS         0     3074      -  ne0
>>     24.1.4.192/27      link#3             UC          0        0      -  ne0
>>     24.1.4.193         24.1.4.202         UGHS        0        0      -  ne0
>>     24.1.4.202         00:c0:26:38:80:71  UHL         2        0      -  lo0

Well, I'm not sure why this looks like this.  Why does:

  ping -I 24.1.4.202 204.152.184.75

work?

>>     127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1      198      -  lo0
>>     172.16.89.40/29    link#1             UC          0        0      -  de0
>>     172.16.89.42       00:40:05:a0:4e:b2  UHL        19  3233955      -  de0
>>     204.152.184.75     24.1.4.202         UGHS        0        0      -  ne0

The system seems to know this is on ne0, guess I'm still mis-understanding something
about this.

TIA,
Paul