Re: disabling ethernet loopback device completely
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:05 +0000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, salman h wrote:
>
> > I want to disable the loopback interface "lo" on my
> > machine completely so that when I try to send data
> > packets to the IP address that is configured for
> > "eth0" on my local machine, the packets are actually
> > put on the physical network.
>
> > and while it disables the loopback interface, data
> > packets are still not being put on the physical
> > network.
>
> The network code is smart and will spot traffic destined for the local
yes, (afaik) this is part of the tcp stack implementation.
-matt zagrabelny
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