>>>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:17:58 +0100
>>>>> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
asmodai> [This question is more appropriate for -net IMHO]
asmodai> -On [20010322 03:00], David E. Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I recently tried (for the first time) to get gif running under FreeBSD
>4.3-BETA (cvsup-ed yesterday). I noticed the following:
>
>gifconfig gif0 inet 10.1.1.1 10.1.2.1
>ifconfig gif0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00
>
>and then I 'ping 192.168.1.1' it will try to route the packet instead of
>reply directly. I need to 'route add 192.168.1.1 127.0.0.1' to have it
>reply to the packet directly. I don't need to do this for other types
>of interfaces... did I mess something up, is this how it is supposed to
>be (doesn't seem to be documented as such).
asmodai> I think that's how it is supposed to be given that gif's main function
asmodai> is to tunnel things and it works on a point-to-point basis.
asmodai> I might be wrong, in which case I am sure UMEMOTO-san or ITOJUN-san will
asmodai> correct me.
Since routing info to ::1 is allocated in IPv6 case, I think it should
be alloacated to 127.0.0.1 also in IPv4 case.
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