From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 17 08:00:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C35E16A418 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:00:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rana.rajneesh@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0087413C4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:00:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rana.rajneesh@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id z22so463256fkz for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:59:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Q/TATc6pLOEiY0B37T7dzjZ1YOxjqCbVL2REYeNmrKc98hM+Nt8th6+UIja0Hd+Y2Ctu0Ny079xE6ZhQ/z83yZHg6YqoV6jX2us/TdzjfyvcmLLbg4gLVMLXzpceu10anq0vARAl1Gk4hmOizlcOP26zJgXFKeeX7YEn28nxX5g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=ny/iG3om8g3HtJIbXqGCnBXfI/nbRSCfPKTJNPr9SwBJ6X9qeJLOszIHYzKrkbEfrx42HyIJuyDcZH8fDFtV+qvvX7ThpdnAXCxSN0RT9u44VliFPXzA7XCXj4d1vQfua2H5tCb890zRANRPtqXsPG7pc0opbz6BRGyQlTnTcR8= Received: by 10.82.189.6 with SMTP id m6mr3832738buf.1187337599286; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.169.13 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <228b46650708170059j3813f81sdd6974337d7ce4cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:29:59 +0530 From: "rajneesh rana" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: routing local traffic w/o using loopback interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:00:01 -0000 hello all, i am opening up two tap interfaces, both connected to bridge, assigning them IP addresses and want to open up tcp connection b/w them without using loopback interface, so i bind client socket to first tap using SO_BINDTODEVICE option and socket server listening on other tap device. The problem is that when i m calling connect, it is giving timeout error. Is it possible two route traffic b/w two interfaces of same machine w/o using loopback interface and kernel hacking. thanx