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From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
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Subject: RE: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1
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:: 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/freeb
sd-hackers/20000402.freebsd-hackers

Windows 2000 appears to do so:

========================================================================
===
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface
Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0    192.168.1.254    192.168.1.10
1
        127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1
1
      192.168.1.0    255.255.255.0     192.168.1.10    192.168.1.10
1
     192.168.1.10  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1
1
    192.168.1.255  255.255.255.255     192.168.1.10    192.168.1.10
1
        224.0.0.0        224.0.0.0     192.168.1.10    192.168.1.10
1
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255     192.168.1.10    192.168.1.10
1
Default Gateway:     192.168.1.254

But then, it routes in a manner that's errr... kind of eccentric. ;-)

I thought about some of the things mentioned in that thread, and having
the ability to use some of the 127/8 addresses could actually be useful.
Is it possible to create aliases for the loopback interface?

-- 
Juha


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