Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264727AbUDVXQw (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:16:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264729AbUDVXQw (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:16:52 -0400 Received: from mail07b.vwh1.net ([207.201.152.67]:30338 "HELO mail07b.vwh1.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264727AbUDVXQu (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:16:50 -0400 From: Nick Popoff To: Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Testing Dual Ethernet via Loopback Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:08:59 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404220408.59399.cryptic-lkml@bloodletting.com> X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 758 Lines: 21 On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Anton Blanchard wrote: > Sounds like you need the send-to-self patch: > http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/ > We've been using it a lot in the lab, it works well. I tried this out yesterday with Linux 2.6.5 at it worked like a charm. Thank you to everyone who replied with solutions and to the author of this patch! I thought the idea of pinging an invalid IP from one interface while snooping with ethereal on the other interface was very clever, but hard to use for performance testing. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/