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From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
To: "'Kevin Oberman'" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: RE: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:17:40 +1200
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:: It says nothing about how the host should respond to receiving the
:: packet.

No, so it looks like either approach is fine -- you can respond to only
127.0.0.1 or for the entire 127/8 net.

-- 
Juha


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