Subject: Re: Configure ICMP error source address

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:11:43 +0100

On 08.01.2016 16:24, [email-masked] wrote:
> Don't put a public address on a lo device use a dummy eth interface instead‎. Any IP address and it's subnet assigned to a lo device is  marked as a marcian address and the traffic is dropped if it tries to leave the lo device.

O_o

> I know that there is som old documentation out there (for example quagga's documentation) that says you can do it ‎but it's been wrong since the 2.4 version off the kernel.
> Linux treats the lo device differently that what routers call a loopback device. The dummy driver is the linux equivalent of what routers call a loopback device.

What you write seems odd to me, we don't treat lo devices differently to 
dummy devices in respect if you bind a public ip address on it.

Bye,
Hannes