On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:47:38PM -0400, Brian Haley wrote:
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?
If users want to violate RFCs, we're certainly not here to stop them...
If it's root using raw sockets I agree, otherwise I think it should be dropped. I've had customers complain about this very problem on another UNIX (and had to fix it), which is why I chimed-in.
-Brian
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