On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 03:05, Eran Mann wrote: > Zdenek Radouch wrote: > ... > > > > 2) If it does require kernel hacking, would you like to do it for me? > > (as I had said, as a contract) > I think what Andi Kleen was talking about below is something like the > attached 5 minutes patch (applies cleanly to 2.4.2x kernels I have at > hand, and to 2.6.11 with minor offset). Please donate the 5 minute wages > to the OSDL or the FSF at your choice ;-) That should do it. Or you can even return false in the macro always for his case - since he will never have a lo device. However, using these addresses is a BAD BAD idea. A lot of other machines will be expecting 127.x to mean something speacial. I dont think you should ask the poster for wages, he will suffer enough with ARPs etc ;-> What is so wrong with RFC198 addresses?? cheers, jamal - : 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