On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 06:06:42PM -0700, Fred Wright wrote:
>
> 1) A loopback connection to the real local IP of a P2P interface uses the
> IP of the default interface rather than the target interface, including
> failing completely if the default interface is offline. This probably
> doesn't affect many people, but I think I specified the bug and the fix
> fairly precisely a while back.
Just checked this one again. It only occurs with TCP, not with ping,
which is why I did not see it earlier.
Actually MiamiDx behaves in the same way as FreeBSD and 4.4BSD, and as
documented in Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 2. For connections that are
rerouted through lo0 the default source IP address is used (regardless of
P2P or not). Interfaces using Arp are not statically rerouted to lo0 and
therefore behave differently. I am not sure if this qualifies as a bug.
Neither the book nor the source code seems to consider it a bug. I agree
that using 127.0.0.1 might seem more natural though...
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