On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 06:48, Greg Rodgers wrote: > We need to test two ethernet cards by sending packets between the two cards > on the same system connected with a crossover cable. It seems like the IP > layer of Linux bypasses the hardware and routes back the packets destined > to its own ip address. That is, if I have 2 ethernet cards configued with > 2 different ip addresses, and if i try to send a packet from one ipaddress > to the other on same system, these packets never reach the 2 ethernet cards > and are bypassed at the IP layer. I would like to know if there is any way > to disable this bypassing at IP layer as a configurable option. short answer: No. This 'short-circuiting' is built into the routing code. You would have to modify the kernel code to make it do what you require. > Thank you > > Greg Rodgers > rodgersg@us.ibm.com > > PS. My mom says it is not good to talk to oneself. Your mom is right :) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amit Kucheria akucheria@<NOSPAM>metricsystems.com Metric Systems Corp. 2320 Cousteau Court, Suite 201, Vista, CA 92083 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
