On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:47:52AM +0100, Ax wrote:
> > It's not so easy to check what happens if you send a packet with a
> > destination in 127.0.0.0/8, but I'd be surprised if it was accepted.
>
> Why 'not so easy'? just kick down 127.0.0.1 on bigfoot and arp -s it
> to point to llama?
Here's why:
bigfoot:~# ifconfig lo down
bigfoot:~# arp
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface
llama ether 00:00:92:96:51:C0 C eth0
bigfoot:~# arp -s 127.0.0.1 00:00:92:96:51:C0
SIOCSARP: Invalid argument
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