From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 13 16:54:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1416837B405; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0388.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.133] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16bAAl-0002C2-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:54:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6B0AD0.2D9F2497@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:54:40 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdr 127.0.0.1 and blocking 127/8 in ip_output() References: <20020213110347.C46245@sunbay.com> <200202131550.g1DFoDh41696@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020213175851.A22977@sunbay.com> <200202131753.g1DHr8J42821@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > RFC1122 requires the host to not send 127/8 addresses out of loopback, > > whether or not its routes are set up correctly. > > As we have already seen, there is not consensus on this particular > issue, or on the general issue of how much of 1122 we should pay > attention to at all. (Are you going to implement multiple default > routes as well?) Actually, that's been a sore point in three commercial projects (so far), so it's probably not a good example. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message