I'm sorry but I'm using NetBSD 2.0: I do not know that release.

Maybe is it a version related problem ?

Also I can suggest to try with traceroute to see where your echo request
stop.

Kind regards,
Roberto


> On Monday 21 March 2005 11:00, Roberto wrote:
>> According to me:
>>  - ping should return "Host is down" when you try to ping a host on your
>> LAN and the host does not respond;
>>
>>  - ping does not return any message if the host is on Internet and it
>> does
>> not respond;
>>
>>  - ping should return "sendto: No route to host" if the route table is
>> not
>> setup correctly (i.e. a route to the ip or default route is missed);
>>
>> What version of netbsd are you using? and Do you have enable a firewall
>> on
>> the host or on the gateway? please verify.
>
> I'm using
> NetBSD powerbook.serah.tvb 2.99.16 NetBSD 2.99.16 (DREAM) #5: Tue Mar 15
> 18:07:29 GMT 2005
> with 2.99.16 userland.
> According to what you say, ping has having a very unusual behaviour... I
> tried
> indeed: on my 2.0/i386 system ping www.sgi.com doesn't display anything
> until
> I Ctrl-C, on macppc it tells me ping: sendto: Host is down
> Everything works perfectly on 2.0/i386
> The only thing I can imagine in my deep ignorance is that some timeout
> values
> are wrong. Is there any way to change them? :)
>
>> Kind regards,
>> Roberto
>
> Thank you very much
> david
>


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