Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 23:22:47 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <196470000.1001215366@vpn45.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <000701c143dc$f7331230$0a01a8c0@den2> References: <000701c143dc$f7331230$0a01a8c0@den2>
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On Sunday, September 23, 2001 15:08:06 +1200, Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> wrote: +----- | :: and note that the only ipv4 address listed is '127.0.0.1'. | | How come it works under Linux? +--->8 Because one of the Linux networking people found an RFC which suggested that machines should respond to all net127 addresses, so they hacked the loopback driver to respond to all addresses within the subnet. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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