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.
next prev 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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