Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 01:57:08 +0200 From: "clemensF" <ino-waiting@gmx.net> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 Message-ID: <20000622015708.G1130@spotteswoode.de> In-Reply-To: <20000620201733.A665@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:17:34PM %2B0000 References: <20000620201733.A665@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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> Nik Clayton: > Why don't we automatically include a network route for 127/8 to lo0? > > If you look in src/sys/netinet/in.c:in_ifinit() (around line 700) you'll > see that IFF_LOOPBACK is special cased in the code to only add a host > route, rather than a network route, and it's been like that for about 15 > years or so. i don't understand this. what's the difference between a host route and a network route? should this not be the same for 127.0.0.1? > route add -net 127 -interface lo0 > > at startup. But it's a bit of a kludge. . . why is this a kludge? clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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