Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.

[Perry Harrington]

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

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