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From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
Subject: Re: Do you know the TCP stack? (127.x.x.x routing)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:40:03 +0100 (CET)
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, jamal wrote:

> 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?

Not if the 127.X addresses never leaves the Zdenek's boxes, when thinking 
in terms that each set of boxes communicating using 127.X addresses is a 
single chassis, seen as a single box to the network admin.

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

IPv6 already have link local addressing IIRC.

Regards
Henrik