Forget the last email. I was up late and for some reason thought I was using 127.16.0.0/16. Anyways, I contacted the person who did this and he used BSD and modified the kernel. Thanks, Sherwin --- sherwin Lu <shihminlu@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I tried 172.16.0.0/16 and I was able to ping and > rlogin to the local machines on the same subnet. > > This address does not appear to be routable which is > good. Unfortunately, Linux will still accept > packets > to itself with the 172.16.0.x as destination if the > packet came from a different interface than what was > configured. > > Thanks, > Sherwin > > --- Graham Hemmings <rhlists@the-e-den.org> wrote: > > > > Actually, that's 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 > > (172.16.0.0/12), 172.32.0.0 is > > not included. > > > > regards, > > > > Graham. > > > > At 08:55 30/10/2002, you wrote: > > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe email > > security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the > > message. > > > > > ===== > 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. > ===== 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.
