Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:33:46 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: Testing Dual Ethernet via Loopback |
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> So what I'm wondering is if there is a way to force Linux to actually > utilize its network hardware in sending these packets to itself? In other > words, a ping or file transfer from an IP assigned to eth0 to another IP > assigned to eth1 should fail if I unplug the network cable connecting the > two. Any advice on this would be much appreciated. I'm not afraid of > reading kernel source but have no idea where to start on this one.
Sounds like you need the send-to-self patch:
http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/
We've been using it a lot in the lab, it works well.
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