Re: Networking, poverty breeds ingenuity

[John Smith <netman1@home.nl>]

Hi All,

	after doing some more research, I found out that this is really
an open nerve for some people. I wonder why my previous e-mail didn't
provoke a flame-war. Probably considered flame-bait. My apologies.

	It is really a problem to me: undefined ip-addresses in the 
127.0.0.0/8 range reacting to pings.

	Cross checking with other OS-es really did show show some 
interesting diferences:

	FreeBSD 4.8 : mask /8, does not react to ping 127.0.0.2
	Solaris 9   : mask /8, does not react to ping 127.0.0.2
	HPUX 11.0   : mask /8, does react to ping 127.0.0.2
	Windows XP  : mask /8, does react to ping 127.0.0.2

Can somebody check Cisco IOS for this? Don't have access atm.

	So my solution to set the mask to /32 (255.255.255.255) 
would at best be a work around. I'm still interested in a solution
but consider iptables a too big a gun for this (and which idiot
would run iptables on a stand alone box anyway?)

	I am open for sugestions.

Sincerely,

Jan.