Hi, for every address of a local interface a loopback route is created on demand. Those routes look like the second one here:
192.168.123.252/30 link#3 UC 1 0 - 4 vr2 192.168.123.253 00:0d:b9:24:60:42 UHLc 0 4 - 4 lo0 But this mechanism does somehow not work for Point to Point interfaces like pppoe(4) or tun(4). The only routes I get here are the following; the first one being created by the netstart script like suggested in pppoe(4). default 213.20.223.35 UGS 3 2190 - 8 pppoe0 213.20.223.35 217.190.92.137 UH 0 0 - 4 pppoe0 I would like to automatically add a route 217.190.92.137 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 0 33196 8 lo0 So that local processes talking to my public IP won't get routed to my ISP and back. The problem is that the IPs are dynamic. What confuses me is that packets arriving on a local lan interface with a destination to my public IP already get routed via the loopback interface. This leads to the strange situation that connections from lan are faster than connections from localhost. Christopher
