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Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.
From: Perry Harrington <pedward () WEBCOM COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:09:41 -0800
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:05:32AM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
when routing is disabled. Further, there's no circumstance I can think of where it makes sense to route 127/8 from an external interface! That
It's not 127/8 that we're talking about. You can assign perfectly valid real world IPs to lo interfaces. The purpose is to get a machine that listens on an IP but doesn't ARP for it.
behaviour should not be switchable. Cheers, Ben.
--Perry -- Perry Harrington Director of zelur xuniL () perry at webcom dot com System Architecture Think Blue. /\
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