(usagi-users 01206) Re: Is this a bug?

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] 神明達哉 wrote:
> Not so many, but not so rare.  Some administrators tend to configure
> a well-known address on a loop-back interface and prefer to use the
> well-known address as the source address.  (and in some cases the
> well-known server has no other global addresses.)  In such a case, the
> source address tends to be chosen on a different interface than the
> packet's outgoing one.

I agree -- this is a nice feature.

IMO, loopback should behave differently from other interfaces; addresses 
on loopback are supposed to be physical interface -agnostic.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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