On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:47:52AM +0100, Ax wrote: > > It's not so easy to check what happens if you send a packet with a > > destination in 127.0.0.0/8, but I'd be surprised if it was accepted. > > Why 'not so easy'? just kick down 127.0.0.1 on bigfoot and arp -s it > to point to llama?
Here's why: bigfoot:~# ifconfig lo down bigfoot:~# arp Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface llama ether 00:00:92:96:51:C0 C eth0 bigfoot:~# arp -s 127.0.0.1 00:00:92:96:51:C0 SIOCSARP: Invalid argument -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
