Agreed, if you configure the IP on the loopback interface then add the
following sysctl options it'll probably work how you want it to:

net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2

.r'


On 10/15/07, Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.asdfgroup.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 04:13:01PM -0500, Jeff Rooney wrote:
> > # ifconfig lo:1 10.10.10.116 netmask 255.255.255.255
> > # ifconfig lo:1 -arp
> > # ip link set lo:1 arp off
> > # ifconfig lo:1
> > listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
>
> I've no idea about disabling arp, but you try to configure loopback and
> then listen on eth0... :)
>
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