On Sunday 08 August 2004 07:17, Damian Gatabria wrote: > :o( no luck. > I even tried -F ing INPUT, FORWARD, OUTPUT, PREROUTING and POSTROUTING > before adding the rule, (all policies set to ACCEPT) and still no luck! > Forwarding is enabled, > net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding = 1 > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 > and still the packets are going nowhere... however giving > the loopback an alias with an ip address of, say, 200.136.136.136 > works... so why can't I route to 127.0.0.x? Is there anything > else I should check/add? You can't send packets from non 127/8 addresses to 127/8. The kernel filters them out and drops them as it considers them "martians". David
