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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg  x7-4534)
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Subject: Re: loopback and multicast messed up on /etc/sysconfig ?
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<<On Wed, 13 Dec 95 10:52:39 CST, laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg  x7-4534) said:

> I've always just hacked the IP # into those lines in sysconfig but wondered
> if I was incorrect in doing so.

Not at all.

> What is the `route_loopback' trying to do anyhow?

In older 4BSD releases, it was necessary to create such a route to
keep traffic intended to stay within the host, but addressed to one of
the host's non-loopback interfaces, from being transmitted over the
attached network.  In modern systems, this is done automatically.

-GAWollman

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