On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:47:38PM -0400, Brian Haley wrote:
>
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> >The answer is no, it will go out of eth0 as you directed.
>
> It shouldn't according to RFC 1122, Section 3.2.1.3:
>
> (g) { 127, <any> }
>
> Internal host loopback address. Addresses of this form
> MUST NOT appear outside a host.
>
> Unless the driver is smart enough to know this and loop it back without
> transmitting?
Um, you're setting options to override the normal behaviour. If you
tell the kernel to dump a block of data onto the wire, overriding the
normal routing mechanism, it's not going to check whether that's
breaking any RFCs.
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