Hello, 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. Yes, http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#loop Note that it is not tested enough. I'll be happy to hear your results. Motivation: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105687990300001&r=1&w=2 > Thank you > > Greg Rodgers > rodgersg@us.ibm.com Regards -- Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> - : 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
