From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2003 - 07:46:34 GMT-3
At 08:23 AM 4/5/2003 +0300, Emad wrote:
>Dear all,
>Why we usually put loopback addresses as 32-bit? And is it right that
>whatever we put the loopback address, it will be advertised as 32-bit even
>if we put it as 24bit address, and if you have a good document about this
>issue , plz advise.
Since you can't attach other devices to this software interface, it makes
sense to use as little space as possible if you are just trying to make the
interface reachable. How it gets advertised depends on which protocol you
use and in some cases how you use it.
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