netdev - Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:25:35 -0800
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Howard Chu <hyc@...as.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback

> On the other hand, being able to configure a small MSL for the loopback 
> device is perfectly safe. Being able to configure a small MSL for other 
> interfaces may be safe, depending on the rest of the network layout.

A peanut gallery question - I seem to recall prior discussions about how 
one cannot assume that a packet destined for a given IP address will 
remain detined for that given IP address as it could go through a module 
that will rewrite headers etc.

Is traffic destined for 127.0.0.1 immune from that?

rick jones
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html