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From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How to route explicitly out i/f?
Date: 16 Aug 1995 04:15:02 GMT
Organization: At Home; Salida, CA
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Message-ID: <40rrc6$p5b@gazette.tandem.com>
Reply-To: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org
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I'd like to do some performance tests on my network card, and I don't have
another real system on my LAN to test against. I tried using my wife's
Windows box, but I think the TCP/IP software is really slow. I want to prove
or disprove that, so I tried to talk to myself over the net. It used to be,
in The Good Old Days, that I could down lo0 and my packets went on the wire.
This doesn't seem to be working (FreeBSD 2.0.5R, ed0, NE2000 clone) - at
least, the light on my hub doesn't flash when I transfer files...
I tried a variety of fiddling, including setting up an alias address. At one
point, I could see my pings going out to the hub, but the system never
recognized them (I think I had removed the network route and added a host
route to my own IP address with -link <my-ether-address> and for the heck of
it a trailing '0'). Anyone have a way of doing this?
Thanks,
\scott