[cryptic-lkml@bloodletting.com: Re: Testing Dual Ethernet via Loopback]

[cryptic-lkml@bloodletting.com: Re: Testing Dual Ethernet via Loopback]

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi,

We have found Julian Anastasov's send-to-self patch extremely useful in
the lab. There seem to be a number of other people who agree, what are
the chances of getting it merged into 2.6?

Ive got a version rediffed against recent BK if required.

Anton

----- Forwarded message from Nick Popoff <cryptic-lkml@bloodletting.com> -----

From: Nick Popoff <cryptic-lkml@bloodletting.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing Dual Ethernet via Loopback

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Sounds like you need the send-to-self patch:
> http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/
> We've been using it a lot in the lab, it works well.

I tried this out yesterday with Linux 2.6.5 at it worked like a charm.  Thank 
you to everyone who replied with solutions and to the author of this patch!  

I thought the idea of pinging an invalid IP from one interface while snooping 
with ethereal on the other interface was very clever, but hard to use for 
performance testing. :-)

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