Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:06:08 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <20010924000608.C1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200109231634.f8NGYwR28149@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:34:58AM -0700 References: <000701c143dc$f7331230$0a01a8c0@den2> <200109231634.f8NGYwR28149@ptavv.es.net>
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:34:58AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
> > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:08:06 +1200
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > :: and note that the only ipv4 address listed is '127.0.0.1'.
> >
> > How come it works under Linux?
>
> Because the Linux IP stack is horribly broken. (No,this particular
> item is only stupid as the result of an anomalous reading of an RFC),
> but the over-all TCP/IP stack in some releases is totally hosed.
On a related note (I drag this out periodically), why does the interface
intialisation code not add a network route for 127/8?
See the thread that starts
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=502857+0+archive/2000/freebsd-hackers/20000402.freebsd-hackers
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