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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 08:12:27 -0600
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
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	Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:25:19PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 08:04:20AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >         Will this be backed out, or do you know of a work around to this 
> > issue?
> > 
> The ip_input() part in question was committed to RELENG_4 in revision
> 1.130.2.20 by a different committer, about a year ago.  

See the Bugtraq archives for the thread starting with Message-ID:
<3AA3ECAB.EA826D28@thebunker.net>, subject ``Loopback and multi-homed
routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.'' for the reasons behind this change.
The following URL might work.

<URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=3AA3ECAB.EA826D28@thebunker.net>

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