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From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Subject: Re: misc/30792: traffic destined for 127/8 addresses should be kept off the network
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The following reply was made to PR misc/30792; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To: "Scot W. Hetzel" <scot@genroco.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/30792: traffic destined for 127/8 addresses should be kept off the network
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:43:51 -0400

 On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:40:27PM -0500, Scot W. Hetzel wrote:
 > Another alternative to patching rc.network, is to define static_routes and
 > add route_loopback to etc/defaults/rc.conf (see attached patch).
 > 
 > We may also need do this for IPv6's loopback network.
 
 That's a nicer idea than my patch.
 
 
 Joe

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