Re: (sipp) Loopback & SST

Matt Crawford <crawdad@munin.fnal.gov> Thu, 21 July 1994 04:25 UTC

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From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@munin.fnal.gov>
Subject: Re: (sipp) Loopback & SST
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 20 Jul 94 15:09:25 -0100. <2888.bill.simpson@um.cc.umich.edu>
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> > The loopback address may be used a source address, whereas a multicast
> > adress may not.
> 
> I'm not sure this is a good argument against it.  When is the loopback
> ever used as a source address?

Oh, now and then.

munin 628% netstat -n -f inet
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
udp        0      0  127.0.0.1.4981         224.255.222.175.57007 
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