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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: OSDL Bugzilla #2399: A user can remotely route a packet through
 eth0 on a Linux machine
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:15:18 -0700
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David Stevens wrote:
> Routing is something done between different hosts. Hosts normally
> will accept packets for any local  address, regardless of
> which interface it was received on.
> 
> That's not a bug; that's how almost everything works.

I think the only issue here is if an application that
binds to an interface should see packets coming in
from another - if that is what is happening here?.

thanks,
Nivedita