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To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: Routing Problems 
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> Yep, this IMO is the best way.  I looked at lobbing stuff from
> ip_output.c to ip_input.c, but it was way too uncontrollable.  The
> first thing it broke badly was "ping localhost".  I'll still look at
> doing it at the ppp/tun level.

Ppp now does this with the "set loopback on|off" command - defaults 
to "on".  Check out http://www.freebsd.org/~brian for the latest copy.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....