Hello, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Carl Fredrik Hammar <hammy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> However, when I try to ping www.google.com, I get the following: >> >> # ping www.google.com >> PING www.l.google.com (74.125.79.99): 56 data bytes >> --- www.l.google.com ping statistics -- >> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > I'm no expert on networking, but I did notice that it manages to resolve > the address.
Yes, true :-) I forgot to mention that in the letter... > You've probably done so already, but I think pings are handled specially, > so you might also want to try using a more ``normal'' networking program > such as lynx or wget. You are right. I read about those ``abnormal'' pings, but I forgot to test a different program yesterday... It's so bad that I often fail to do the elementaries when it's so necessary :-( > Atleast I know that something that appears to be broken but have actually > worked all along, is just the kind of thing I'd run into. ;-) Oh yeah :-) That's common of me, too :-) However, I must say that trying to solve the ``problem'' which actually was not a problem made me refuse to use the bridging + TUN/TAP stuff when I only needed Internet access. Thanks a lot for the indications :-) Regards, scolobb
