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RE: Do you know the TCP stack? (127.x.x.x routing)

To: "Catalin\(ux aka Dino\) BOIE" <util@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Do you know the TCP stack? (127.x.x.x routing)
From: "Steve Iribarne" <steve.iribarne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:35:43 -0800
Cc: <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Martin Mares" <mj@xxxxxx>, "Zdenek Radouch" <zdenek@xxxxxxx>, "Eran Mann" <emann@xxxxxxx>, "Thomas Graf" <tgraf@xxxxxxx>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: Do you know the TCP stack? (127.x.x.x routing)
-> You say that a client will not allow you to use net 10.
-> OK, but, the same client would not allow you to use 127/8 because
they
-> use
-> it!
-> What I'm saying is that 10.0.0.0/8 and 127.0.0.0/8 are the same. The
-> customer can use them.
-> You assume that the client will not use 127/8. Why? This is wrong.
-> You can use it, the client can use it.
-> 

No.  If the client uses 127/8 on a linux box, it is just a loopback and
will never go out on the wire and the applications (i.e. telnet, ftp,
ping, whatever) will just loopback.



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