Subject: Re: Do you know the TCP stack? (127.x.x.x routing)

From: Martin Mares <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:56:42 +0100

Hello!

> Unfortunately, this does not work with the Linux stack, because the
> 127 net is treated (for good reasons I suppose) as a special net.

Is it really?

I've just tried

	ip addr del 127.0.0.1/8 dev lo
	ip addr add 127.0.0.1/24 dev lo

and `ping 127.1.2.3' is then happily sent along the default route.

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <[email-masked]>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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