From: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel dies if loopback device not intialized
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:25:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245327912.7609.1.camel@Maple> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245293482.10073.5.camel@merlyn>
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:51 -0500, John Dykstra wrote:
> > The packets come from SNMP smux which opens a TCP socket over 127.1
> > but the loopback interface is in admin down.
>
> Hmmm...the stack is doing the ARP because it doesn't have a valid route
> for 127.0.0.1. But I would expect it to be ARPing a default router, and
> getting a response (modulo your network state). What am I missing?
Never mind. This box is a router, with no default routes.
-- John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-18 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 3:35 kernel dies if loopback device not intialized Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-15 15:41 ` John Dykstra
2009-06-17 4:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18 2:51 ` John Dykstra
2009-06-18 12:25 ` John Dykstra [this message]
2009-06-18 1:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
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