Re: localhost on Solaris

[ury segal <ury_segal () yahoo com>]

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 <rick.jones2 () hp com> 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
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