On 4/23/2008 5:51 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Ah, I see what this is all about. The problem is not the loopback interface, it is the loopback address range 127.0.0.0/8. Some RFC states that "127.0.0.0/8 must not be used outside a host", so the routing code in the Linux kernel discards packets with a source or destination address in this range which are sent or received through a non loopback interface.
Ok. That very clearly explains why I was seeing what I was seeing. Thank you. It also explains that little (if any thing) will get around this with the kernel behaving the way that it is.
<snip> *nod* (to all)
What behaviour ? Discarding traffic to or from 127.0.0.0./8 on a non loopback interface ? I guess there have been some patches.
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