The 127.x.x.x is reserved for loopback I think they might have meant using the 172.16-172.32 subnets as they are reserved for local use Linux will support this without a problem On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:39, BUNTER MATTHEW wrote: > > --- Re=E7u de VITEUR.BUNTERMA 04 72 96 57 77 30/10/02 09.= > 39 > > I thought that the whole 127 class A was reserved for the loopback and > couldn't be used - IIRC. > > Matt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:55:18 -0800 > Subject: Subnetting 127.x? > > > Hello, > > I have some devices connected to 3 subnets. 2 are > public, and 1 is used for management of these devices. > I want to prevent any packets from the public subnets > being fowarded to the management subnet. A couple of > people suggest I subnet the 127.x address space to do > this. I tried it and got this error, "sendto: Invalid > argument". > I suspect this is not supported by Linux and it's > probably not even a legal used of the loopback > addresses. Does anyone know anything about this? > > Thanks, > Sherwin > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Best Regards, > Sherwin Lu > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > > ---- 30/10/02 09.39 ---- Envoy=E9 =E0 -----------------------------= > ---- > -> security-discuss(a)linuxsecurity.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
