From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jul 1 11:49:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from njord.bart.nl (njord.bart.nl [194.158.170.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5139037B8E3; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.is.an.elder.of.the.ninth-circle.org [195.38.216.226]) by njord.bart.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e61IngZ79971; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:49:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA50960; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:39:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:39:29 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Nik Clayton Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 Message-ID: <20000701203929.E26119@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20000620201733.A665@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000620201733.A665@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:17:34PM +0000 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -On [20000621 19:58], Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) wrote: >Why don't we automatically include a network route for 127/8 to lo0? > >I first noticed this when I saw Samba repeatedly triggering a PPP >dialup. > >It turns out Samba is sending occasional broadcasts to 127.255.255.255. >There's no route for that address on a 3.4/4.x system, so the packets >end up going out of the default route. This is bad for PPP systems (or >other systems that pay for outgoing traffic in some way). Funny. I just tried it myself here, but it doesn't cause any dial up sessions to be established on this CURRENT box. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Do unto others, as ye would have done unto you... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message