[lug] Networking question ...

[Trever C. Trader]

What's the status of the interface on the router? 
Is it still Up/Up when you lose connectivity?

I don't know what that loop statement would be unless for some reason
someone is looping that interface.

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 rm at mamma.varadinet.de wrote:

> Here's one for the network gurus on this list:
> 
>  I just logged into a friends network because
>  his Linux gateway stops talking to the outside
>  world every tree to four weeks. The whole thing
>  is pretty mysterious, but anyway, while i was
>  monitoring the traffic on the external interface
>  (which connects to a CISCO router be means of
>  fibre optic) i found some packets the ethereal
>  labels 'Loop' which seem to originate from
>  the CISCO as well as have the CISCO as their
>  destination (i.e. sender and destination hw.
>  adresses are the same). Any idea about the 
>  purpose and the inner working of this?
> 
>    Ralf
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