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From: medin@NSIPO.NASA.GOV ("Milo S. Medin", NASA ARC NSI Project Office)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: p4200 routing
Message-ID: <8812270620.AA12041@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 27 Dec 88 06:20:17 GMT
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Joe, if you feel that strongly about grounding net 127 datagrams,
and are willing to check every packet to make sure none get through,
then just add 127 to the filtered networks list, and the p4200
will ground all those packets.

Personally, I'm with Keith.  The network 127 loopback functionality is
a BSD'ism, and hardly something a generic gateway like a p4200
should be concerned with.  The p4200 does provide you the tools to
address the problem, but I don't think the default value should be
to filter...

					Thanks,
					   Milo