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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
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