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Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.
From: Ben Laurie <ben () ALGROUP CO UK>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:31:39 +0000
Perry Harrington wrote:
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! ThatIt'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.
You may not be talking about 127/8 but we are (and I freely admit that may not have been made completely clear). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff ApacheCon 2001! http://ApacheCon.com/
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