From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:25:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EDDC4F.7010201@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EDD791.4040908@symas.com>
> On the other hand, being able to configure a small MSL for the loopback
> device is perfectly safe. Being able to configure a small MSL for other
> interfaces may be safe, depending on the rest of the network layout.
A peanut gallery question - I seem to recall prior discussions about how
one cannot assume that a packet destined for a given IP address will
remain detined for that given IP address as it could go through a module
that will rewrite headers etc.
Is traffic destined for 127.0.0.1 immune from that?
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <45EBFD13.1060106@symas.com>
2007-03-05 14:28 ` TCP 2MSL on loopback Eric Dumazet
2007-03-05 15:09 ` [PATCH] twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int Eric Dumazet
2007-03-05 21:33 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 9:22 ` TCP 2MSL on loopback Howard Chu
2007-03-06 10:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 18:39 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 20:28 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 21:05 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 21:25 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-03-06 21:35 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 22:07 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 22:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 23:22 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 18:04 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:46 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-06 19:25 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:41 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-07 3:36 ` Howard Chu
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