Playing with rusers on new installed kernel 2.0.29 i experienced a
problem: try to access localhost's broadcast address fails with ENETUNREACH.
Actually, any addresses in 127.* except 127.0.0.1 have this error.
[root@unicorn]~# route -n|grep 127
127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 3 lo
127.0.0.0 - 255.0.0.0 ! 0 - 18 -
[root@unicorn]~#
networks are Ok, I belive.
[root@unicorn]~# ping -qc 1 127.0.0.0
PING 127.0.0.0 (127.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 127.0.0.0 64 chars, ret=-1
--- 127.0.0.0 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
[root@unicorn]~# ping -qc 1 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.7/0.7/0.7 ms
[root@unicorn]~# ping -qc 1 127.125.0.2
PING 127.125.0..2 (127.125.0.2): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 127.125.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1
--- 127.125.0.2 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
[root@unicorn]~# ping -qc 1 127.255.255.255
PING 127.255.255.255 (127.255.255.255): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 127.255.255.255 64 chars, ret=-1
--- 127.255.255.255 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
[root@unicorn]~#
Is it a known bug and there is a patch ? Or I missed something to update ?
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btw, checking 2.1.65 for this : loopback's broadcast is not responding at
all....
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