Re: missing icmp errors for udp packets

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, clemens wrote:
> does this somehow explain why this whole issue doesn't apply to the loopback
> devices?

Loopback is not subject to these restrictions,
net/ipv4/icmp.c:icmpv4_xrlim_allow :

        /* No rate limit on loopback */
        if (dst->dev && (dst->dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK))
                return 1;


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