On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:17:17PM +0000, hikari wrote:
> Annoyingly you can't use a 127.0.0.0/8 IP on it though, you have to
> assign some other IP to it. Microsoft never seem to do anything the
> logical way. Why they couldn't just have installed the loopback
> device by default and assigned 127.0.0.0/8 to it I don't know.
Based on what I understand, this is because instead of requiring a true
loopback device for normal operations, 127/8 is treated special and piggybacks
over any/all existing interfaces.
For a neat trick sometime, try sending a packet with a destination ethernet
address of a Windows box and a destination IP address in the 127 range. In
quite a few configurations, the Windows box will actualy process the packet!
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