Re: using loopback address as primary address

2006-07-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 14:19, Andre Santos wrote: > On 7/25/06, Nikos Vassiliadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (2) the application can run in a jail(8) whose IP address is lo1, in > > > which case a 'bind to any' will bind to this address only > > > > If that could happen without the jail part

Re: using loopback address as primary address

2006-07-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 24 July 2006 16:48, Brian Candler wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:38:56PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > Can I somehow use lo1 address > > for connections initiated from Host_2? > > Options I know of: > > (1) the application which originates the connection can explicitly bind > t

Re: using loopback address as primary address

2006-07-24 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:38:56PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Can I somehow use lo1 address > for connections initiated from Host_2? Options I know of: (1) the application which originates the connection can explicitly bind to the lo1 address (see for example telnet -s and ping -S options)

using loopback address as primary address

2006-07-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hello everybody, Suppose I have two addresses routed to my box over a PPP interface. I have created on Host_2 a loopback interface and assigned to it Inet_addr_2. Host_1 routes to Host_2 Inet_Addr_2 and everything works if something is coming from internet to Inet_Addr_2. Host_2 has as default rou