Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:39:29 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 Message-ID: <20000701203929.E26119@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <20000620201733.A665@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:17:34PM %2B0000 References: <20000620201733.A665@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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-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 <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; 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
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