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From: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Albert Pretorius <albertpretorius@yahoo•co.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	"yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org >> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki"
	<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	pekkas@netcore•fi, jmorris@namei•org
Subject: Re: IPV6 loopback bound socket succeeds connecting to remote host
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:41:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF75BC3.1020606@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <616589.97517.qm@web29017.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

Albert Pretorius wrote, at 12/02/2010 03:45 PM:
> Hi
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/12/10, Shan Wei <shanwei@cn•fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> I think it make nonsense to translate data between loopback
>> device and other e.g. eth0 device in same machine.
> 
> I agree, RFC4291 makes it clear for IPV6 that no interface should accept traffic from loopback, I should not have tried to make it behave like IPV4.
> I can not find an equivalent statement for IPV4 though, all I could find is this from RFC3330:
> 
>    127.0.0.0/8 - This block is assigned for use as the Internet host
>    loopback address.  A datagram sent by a higher level protocol to an
>    address anywhere within this block should loop back inside the host.
>    This is ordinarily implemented using only 127.0.0.1/32 for loopback,
>    but no addresses within this block should ever appear on any network
>    anywhere [RFC1700, page 5].
> 
> Do you perhaps know?

There are no same statement for IPv4 loopback address. I have checked RFC1122, RFC1700 and RFC5753 .		

-- 
Best Regards
-----
Shan Wei


> thank you,
> Albert Pretorius
> 
> 
>       
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-02  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 10:55 IPV6 loopback bound socket succeeds connecting to remote host Albert Pretorius
2010-12-01  8:18 ` Shan Wei
2010-12-02  7:45   ` Albert Pretorius
2010-12-02  8:41     ` Shan Wei [this message]
2010-12-16 20:18       ` David Miller
2010-12-20  6:31         ` Shan Wei
2010-12-20  6:43           ` David Miller
2010-12-22  7:06             ` Shan Wei
2010-12-29 16:53               ` Albert Pretorius

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