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From: Perry Harrington (pedwardWEBCOM.COM)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 03:09:41 CST

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    On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:05:32AM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
    > when routing is disabled. Further, there's no circumstance I can think
    > of where it makes sense to route 127/8 from an external interface! That

    It's not 127/8 that we're talking about. You can assign perfectly valid
    real world IPs to lo interfaces. The purpose is to get a machine that listens
    on an IP but doesn't ARP for it.

    > behaviour should not be switchable.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Ben.
    >

    --Perry 

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