> -----Original Message----- > From: Noah L. Meyerhans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 4:35 PM > To: Christian Pernegger > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Have I misunderstood an ipchains concept? > > Volume 1 of Rich Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated indicates that your thinking > is correct. It's in section 2.7, where the book discusses the loopback > interface. I'll quote from the book for bit here: > --- > Datagrams sent to a broadcast address or a multicast addresss are copied > to the loopback interface and sent out on the Ethernet. This is because > the definition of broadcasting and multicasting includes the sending host. > ---
Maybe the keyterm here is copied? Then the vroadcasting host'd get 2 packets ... hmmm. > So, were we to take the Stevens book as gospel, I think we should :) Christian > then it seems like Linux > is doing something wrong here. I don't know if this is documented > anywhere or not.
