Re: [Q] Socket address...

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 1994 22:07

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Uri Blumenthal (uri@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: A question to ye all...

: Say I'm establishing TCP connection to a box.
: Socket will reflect the Source address (who it
: came from - me), and the Destination address,
: namely the IP address/port of the box I'm 
: "dialing" to...

: Now - what happens, if these two boxes are the same?

: Is it normal for TCP/IP code to substitute the address
: for "127.0.0.1" and pretend it comes from "localhost"?

Nope it shouldn't.

The source address should be chosen from the destination
address and the routing table.

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