From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 24 12:52:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D3037B401 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24306; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:52:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26577; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:52:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15279.36580.702035.48092@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:52:04 -0600 To: Joe Abley Cc: Nate Williams , Juha Saarinen , "'Andrew Reilly'" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 continued In-Reply-To: <20010924155020.O37693@buffoon.automagic.org> References: <20010924160936.A10863@gurney.reilly.home> <00e001c144c8$c33bf900$0a01a8c0@den2> <15279.36370.255717.249074@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010924155020.O37693@buffoon.automagic.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:48:34PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > :: Those packets are _supposed_ to get back to this host. That's > > > :: what loopback is for. > > > > > > Yes, I think the RFCs make a point of this. > > > > But if you have no interface listening on the other 254 addresses, you > > may was well blockhole them. > > s/254/16777216/ :) Duh... Right, what he said. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message