Re: localhost on Solaris

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com>]

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
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