csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) (05/27/91)
Is it my imagination, or is there an entire Class A network (127.x.x.x) that is essentially unusable? Is anybody out there using it for anything besides loopback? -- Dave Mack
smeg@laguna.uucp (Maarten Koning) (05/28/91)
In article <1991May26.170543.7991@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes: >Is it my imagination, or is there an entire Class A network (127.x.x.x) >that is essentially unusable? Is anybody out there using it for >anything besides loopback? > >-- >Dave Mack I have an OS simulation that runs under UNIX at user level as a single process. This simulator has full IP networking capabilities and when it starts up, it dynamically allocates an IP address out of the 127 network. It also adjusts the hosts (in my case, a Sun 4/65) routing table to route to a special networking interface that provides a file descriptor interface to a user level process. The simulator sends and receives these IP packets using good old read & write to /dev/ip. Anyway, the 127 net is handy when you need an IP address that never leaves your machine on a real (hardware) interface. Maarten Koning -- //include1 pgm=disclaimer,parm='my opinions only' Maarten Koning | Internet: smeg@bnr.ca | Phone: (613) 763-8796 BNR Ltd. | UUCP: smeg@bigsur.UUCP | FAX: (613) 763-2626