netdev - Re: kernel dies if loopback device not intialized

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Message-Id: <1245327912.7609.1.camel@Maple>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:25:12 -0500
From:	John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel dies if loopback device not intialized

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:51 -0500, John Dykstra wrote:
> > The packets come from SNMP smux which opens a TCP socket over 127.1
> > but the loopback interface is in admin down. 
> 
> Hmmm...the stack is doing the ARP because it doesn't have a valid route
> for 127.0.0.1.  But I would expect it to be ARPing a default router, and
> getting a response (modulo your network state).  What am I missing?

Never mind.  This box is a router, with no default routes.

  --  John

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