Re: stupied userspace programs or kernel bug ?

From: Dub Spencer
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 14:41:13 EST


On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:54:01PM +0200, Adam Popik wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Mark Watts wrote:
> That test was with 2 host network and no more hosts, routers
> and others... linux# shold have this address for virtual
> use only on that machine (loopback interface), netmask on
> all linuxboxes are same, onlny on lo was /32. When I use
> /24 mask and router (routing was good until assinging ip
> address to loopback) network traffic is broken about 40 icmp
> requests (outside local net)... Is linux bugs ? on same
> test on FreeBSD and Solaris 9 no problems (loopback is and
> only loopback)

you may want to check the installed routes, it may well be a
system configuration issue: netstat -ran (-finet on bsd), and
look if the local 192... address doesnt get routed via lo.

dub
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