Bugtraq: Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.

[Ben Laurie <ben () ALGROUP CO UK>]

Perry Harrington wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:05:32AM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > when routing is disabled. Further, there's no circumstance I can think
> > of where it makes sense to route 127/8 from an external interface! That
> It's not 127/8 that we're talking about.  You can assign perfectly valid
> real world IPs to lo interfaces.  The purpose is to get a machine that listens
> on an IP but doesn't ARP for it.
You may not be talking about 127/8 but we are (and I freely admit that
may not have been made completely clear).

Cheers,

Ben.

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