OK... Assuming I insist on enabling localhost sniffing on Solaris to the benerfit of all: How should I approach it?
How about pushing a STREAMS module on top of the TCP driver? ( Is *that* a STREAMS driver nowdays?) --ury --- Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ury segal wrote: > > Thanks for the answer! > > > > There is nothing similar to ip_loopback_bypass > > in Solaris. > > The be all and end all of Unix OSes has no such > thing?!? Imagine :) > > > When I run netstat -i, I do see packets that > > are "passed through" the localhost interface. > > > > Is there a real entity in the kernel which is the > > loopback interface, may it be a driver (seems not > to > > be one), STREAMS module, anything? > > Does it contain anything beyond statistics ? > > I believe that it is nothing more than a figment of > the imagination of the IP > code. There is no other "real" entity. > > Now, what happens if one unplumbs lo0: and assigns > 127.0.0.1 to a "real" > interface (say as an alias) I have no idea...of > course without the loopback > bypass it may still not get you where you want to > go. > > rick jones > - > This is the tcpdump-workers list. > Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. > ===== --ury - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
