Hello! > Unfortunately, this does not work with the Linux stack, because the > 127 net is treated (for good reasons I suppose) as a special net. Is it really? I've just tried ip addr del 127.0.0.1/8 dev lo ip addr add 127.0.0.1/24 dev lo and `ping 127.1.2.3' is then happily sent along the default route. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth Only dead fish swim with the stream. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html