Subject: Re: Sending network traffic to "self" externally - is it possible?
To: Bryan Phillippe <bryanp35@comcast.net>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/15/2007 08:42:36
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:24:49 -0700
Bryan Phillippe <bryanp35@comcast.net> wrote:
> I would like to conduct some ethernet network testing using a NetBSD  
> client & server configuration.  The unusual part about this is that I  
> want my configuration to be a single NetBSD system functioning as  
> both a client and a server, physically sending network traffic out on  
> interface and back into another, using a cross-cable.

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to test here but if you get
too convoluted you may change the tested system too much.  Is it
impossible to find one more machine on the network that can run NAT?

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
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