From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 3 6:57:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85C037B5B7; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA11339; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:57:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:57:33 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Nik Clayton , net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 Message-ID: <20000703145733.A3949@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000620201733.A665@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000701203929.E26119@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000701203929.E26119@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:39:29PM +0200 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:39:29PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [20000621 19:58], Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) wrote: > >Why don't we automatically include a network route for 127/8 to lo0? > > > >I first noticed this when I saw Samba repeatedly triggering a PPP > >dialup. > > > >It turns out Samba is sending occasional broadcasts to 127.255.255.255. > >There's no route for that address on a 3.4/4.x system, so the packets > >end up going out of the default route. This is bad for PPP systems (or > >other systems that pay for outgoing traffic in some way). > > Funny. > > I just tried it myself here, but it doesn't cause any dial up sessions > to be established on this CURRENT box. What's your default route set to? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message