Cleanest way to deal with loopback interface?

[Taylor Grant]

> yeah--somewhere around line 1434 of:
> 
>   /usr/src/linux-2.4.28/net/ipv4/route.c
> 
> on the machine i'm looking at.

Do you have any idea where the corresponding code would be in the 2.6 kernel?  I was not aware that such a filter did exist.  Personally I'd like a way to turn it off and set up my firewall the way that I want.  IMHO this could be considered a hidden bug.



Grant. . . .