misc/143800: ping of local ip failed with network boot

[Vladimir I. Pushkar]

>Number:         143800
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       ping of local ip failed with network boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 11 12:30:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Vladimir I. Pushkar
>Release:        8.0-STABLE
>Organization:
CAD Department of NTUU 
>Environment:
FreeBSD helium.cell.cad.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Tue Feb  9 11:22:45 EET 2010     root at dream.cad.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NODE  i386

>Description:
With network boot of diskless stations ping of network interface ip which was received via DHCP failed.
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot diskless station from NFS server and try to ping machines itself network interface ip.
F.Ex.:
helium#/home/vortex>ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=9843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK0,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=2049<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING,WOL_MAGIC>
        ether 00:30:48:21:8f:b2
        inet 10.12.33.171 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 10.12.33.191
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
helium#/home/vortex>ping -c 5 10.12.33.171
PING 10.12.33.171 (10.12.33.171): 56 data bytes

--- 10.12.33.171 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

No problems with others hosts and from others hosts:
helium:/home/vortex>ping -c 2 hydrogen
PING hydrogen (10.12.33.170): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.12.33.170: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.967 ms
64 bytes from 10.12.33.170: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.004 ms

--- hydrogen ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.967/0.986/1.004/0.018 ms
hydrogen:/home/vortex>ping -c 2 helium
PING helium (10.12.33.171): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.12.33.171: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.928 ms
64 bytes from 10.12.33.171: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.957 ms

--- helium ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.928/1.942/1.957/0.015 ms

>Fix:


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