Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:30:23AM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> HEllo,
> 
> is debian protected beforeconnecting from remote hosts to address
> 127.0.0.0/8 ?
> 
> how?

 Yes.  It uses rp_filter (this is controlled in /proc/sys/...  Read
linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, in the kernel source tree.)   Read
/etc/init.d/networking to see what gets set up when you config networking.

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