Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.

[David Damerell]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Lothar Beta wrote:
>The default "simple" firewall rules for ipfw in FreeBSD specify that
>packets destined for the 127.0.0.0/8 network not coming from the lo0
>device will be dropped.

Debian GNU/Linux installations nowadays will attempt to set up spoof
protection, with similar effects.

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