From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 17:19:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187A837B40D for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15lJSx-0003HR-00; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:19:19 +1200 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:19:19 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Lamont Granquist Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20010923170355.N36356-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Lamont Granquist wrote: > yes, > > ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffffff alias > > works just fine. Ahhh... thanks. > i do agree, though, that the lack of a route for 127/8 does seem to break > the RFC. it states that 127/8 isn't supposed to leave the host, but: > > # tcpdump host 127.1.1.1 > tcpdump: listening on fxp0 > 17:11:49.048088 192.168.69.11 > 127.1.1.1: icmp: echo request > 17:11:50.053303 192.168.69.11 > 127.1.1.1: icmp: echo request > 17:11:51.063315 192.168.69.11 > 127.1.1.1: icmp: echo request > > clearly they do. Did you mean '127.0.0.1' above? Also, doesn't the packet dump say that it's seeing ICMP echo requests going to 127.1.1.1, but not actually leaving it? Or am I reading it wrong? -- Regards, Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message