Re: 127.0.0.0/8 addresses from the network

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

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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