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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: Do you know the TCP stack? (127.x.x.x routing)
Date: 08 Mar 2005 09:17:50 -0500
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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:03, Martin Mares wrote:

> No, since this tends to interfere with the outside network using the
> same private (RFC 1918) addresses. People generally don't expect network
> equipment to collide with their perfectly legal addressing plan.
> 

Aha! Thanks for clarifying this. So the problem domain is:  "IP address
conflict" detection and somehow this is seen as a resolution to that
problem. 
So what happens when you put tow or three of Zdenek's boxes in one
location? Back to square 1?

> On the other hand, if the manufacturer gets a small block of public
> addresses and uses it in all his devices (the same block everywhere)
> for internal purposes only (no packet ever escapes), everything is
> perfectly correct and no collisions can arise.

Yes, I see.
Except this wont be practical for IPV4 since those addresses are scarce.
May make sense for V6 though (becomes like MAC addresses on NICS).

cheers,
jamal