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BBKing · 02-06-2004, 19:53

We block access to private IPs for security reasons. However, what you're pinging is a UBR interface on your subnet with multiple IPs all ARPing to the same MAC address. The echo reply packet merely picks the first IP address allocated to that interface to reply from.

02-06-2004, 19:53	#2
BBKing R.I.P. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Services: 20Mb VM CM, Virgin TV Posts: 5,983	Re: (BBKing) Ping weirdness... We block access to private IPs for security reasons. However, what you're pinging is a UBR interface on your subnet with multiple IPs all ARPing to the same MAC address. The echo reply packet merely picks the first IP address allocated to that interface to reply from.