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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Loopback security...
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:44:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480F04E4.9080103@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480E4596.9030000@riverviewtech.net>

Grant Taylor a écrit :
> 
> To me, the concept of the loopback interface is just a very unique 
> network interface.  Personally I could be equally happy with an ethernet 
> interface with a loopback plug in it used as the loopback interface with 
> in the system.

Indeed, the loopback interface is a very unique network interface. It is 
more than just an ethernet interface with a loopback plug. Not only does 
it loop back traffic, but also the kernel knows about it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-22  2:05 Loopback security Grant Taylor
2008-04-22 11:01 ` Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
2008-04-22 14:08   ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-22 16:04     ` Pascal Hambourg
2008-04-22 19:43       ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-23 10:51         ` Pascal Hambourg
2008-04-25 20:00           ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-22 20:51       ` Petr Pisar
2008-04-23  9:31         ` Pascal Hambourg
2008-04-23  9:45           ` Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
2008-04-22 16:50     ` Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
2008-04-22 20:07       ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-22 20:25         ` Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
2008-04-23  0:38           ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-23  9:07           ` Pascal Hambourg
2008-04-23  9:44         ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]
2008-04-22 19:48     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-22 20:16       ` Grant Taylor
2008-04-23 15:22         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-25 20:11           ` Grant Taylor

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