On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:50:13AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:03:47 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > Please test with and without this patch.
> 
> I continue to believe that this should be done by fixing the routing,
> not by adding additional hacks to the already-bloated ip_output()
> path.
> 
BSD always had these "hacks" (rfc1122 requirements) in in_canforward().
RFC1122 requires the host to not send 127/8 addresses out of loopback,
whether or not its routes are set up correctly.


Cheers,
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