Why do packets to 127.255.255.255 cause dial-up?

[Tony Finch]

Paul Civati <paul at xciv.org> wrote:
> Nik Clayton <nik at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > The more interesting question is why is this happening?  The only other
> > IP enabled system I have to hand is Win98 (I know, I know), and a quick
> > "route print" shows that the 127.0.0.1 route has a /8 netmask rather than
> > a /32.
> 
> Good to see MS doing things differently as usual.

Linux does the same thing (or at least the version I have here does).

Tony.
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