From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 16:23:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C50837B428 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8NN68900705; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:06:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:06:08 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Juha Saarinen , 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> References: <000701c143dc$f7331230$0a01a8c0@den2> <200109231634.f8NGYwR28149@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HIPflPGvV5kKjZ73" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109231634.f8NGYwR28149@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:34:58AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project 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 --HIPflPGvV5kKjZ73 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:34:58AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: "Juha Saarinen" > > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:08:06 +1200 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > >=20 > > :: and note that the only ipv4 address listed is '127.0.0.1'. > >=20 > > How come it works under Linux? >=20 > 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=3D502857+0+archive/2000/fr= eebsd-hackers/20000402.freebsd-hackers N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --HIPflPGvV5kKjZ73 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjuuauAACgkQk6gHZCw343V3MACeNorL5cH2Ypvj8IweRpwCU/GU TWAAnRgyPLylvPTknMYX3YNI8UVGYl5c =nkEm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HIPflPGvV5kKjZ73-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message