You would have to hack the IP layer for that AFAIK. I need the same thing for a device driver I am writing and the only way to do this seem to be bypassing the IP layer optimization which basically says "If the destination IP is one of my interfaces, pick up pkt from xmit queue and put it in recv queue" ciao, Amit On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, David Müller wrote: > Hello > > For testing purposes, i would like to make a connection between 2 > network interfaces on the same machine. > > For example, i have eth0 (10.0.0.100) and eth1 (10.0.0.101) and would > like to have the traffic going on the "wire", not just taking the > "shortcut" inside the protocol stack. > > I have played around a little bit with the routing table, but did not > succeed. > > Does Linux and/or the associated network tools support such strange > requirements and if yes how to i setup the routing table? > > TIA > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > -- I'm an angel!!! Honest! The horns are just there to hold the halo up straight. ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ Amit Kucheria EECS Grad. Research Assistant University of Kansas @ Lawrence (R): +1-785-830-8521 ||| (C): +1-785-760-2871 ____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
