On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 hubert@feyrer.de wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, A. Wik wrote:
> > The routing tables look correct -
> >
> > on the VAXstation:
> > # netstat -rn
> > Internet:
> > Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
> > default            10.0.0.32          UGS         0       23   1500  le0
> > 10/24              link#1             UC          0        0   1500  le0
> > 10.0.0.32          00:50:04:4d:90:a8  UHL         1       49   1500  le0
> > 10.0.0.64          00:10:4b:37:66:d5  UHL         1     6355   1500  le0
> > 10.0.0.255         link#1             UHL         1       82   1500  le0
> > 127                127.0.0.1          UGRS        0        0  33228  lo0
> > 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1        0  33228  lo0
> > 192.168.1.2        192.168.1.1        UGHS        0        4   1500  sl0
> 
> Um, did you ifconfig lo0 (loopback) before any of the slattach/ifconfig
> sl0 commands?

No, I didn't.  The loopback interface was set up by the startup scripts.

> It's nice that both machines know how to reach the other
> one, but as routing isn't setup properly here, pinging your own sl0 can't
> work.
> Try: route add 192.168.1.2 127.0.0.1. Do the same on the PC (with the .1,
> of course)

After I did so, the machines could ping their own sl0 interface addresses.
But why doesn't the Ethernet interface need a route to 127.0.0.1? 

>  - Hubert (who hasn't used SLIP since a LONG time)

Neither have I...