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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article   
   <99716537-b4f3-4bcd-83f8-1a91757dd4f3@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,   
    David Schwartz  wrote:   
      
   > On Nov 26, 9:10 am, Ashwin Rao  wrote:   
   >   
   > > The following traces are of a connection between a client and server   
   > > running on the same machine. The connection is over a local loop and   
   > > the MTU is limited to 1500 bytes for the local loop device.   
   >   
   > The MTU setting doesn't have the same effect on devices that don't   
   > have media as it does on devices that do. The loopback device actually   
   > directly connects the two endpoints of a stream connection together,   
   > and at that point, they no longer really use the loopback device so   
   > its MTU no longer affects them.   
      
   But MSS should still apply.   
      
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