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Subject: Re: Problem:  RFC1166 addressing
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 17:50, tomc@teamics.com wrote:
>  Linux does not enforce this.  I have uncovered some users using this
> function to attempt to circumvent the firewall.  I am able to "create" 127
> network traffic as follows:

If you choose to configure that way they yes you can. Since any other
box on the net can also send/received 127.* packets make sure your
firewall is right 8)

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