Summary: | traffic destined for 127/8 addresses should be kept off the network | ||||||||
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Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Joe Abley <jabley> | ||||||
Component: | misc | Assignee: | ru <ru> | ||||||
Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | lamont | ||||||
Priority: | Normal | ||||||||
Version: | 4.4-RELEASE | ||||||||
Hardware: | Any | ||||||||
OS: | Any | ||||||||
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Description
Joe Abley
2001-09-24 18:00:01 UTC
Another alternative to patching rc.network, is to define static_routes and add route_loopback to etc/defaults/rc.conf (see attached patch). We may also need do this for IPv6's loopback network. Scot On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:40:27PM -0500, Scot W. Hetzel wrote:
> Another alternative to patching rc.network, is to define static_routes and
> add route_loopback to etc/defaults/rc.conf (see attached patch).
>
> We may also need do this for IPv6's loopback network.
That's a nicer idea than my patch.
Joe
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Fixed in 5.0-CURRENT, sys/netinet/ip_output,v 1.148. (Packets with source address of 127/8 are not eligible as well.) MFC in one week. Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->ru State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Fixed in 4.5-STABLE, sys/netinet/ip_output.c,v 1.99.2.25. |