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   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   David Schwartz  wrote:   
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   > 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.   
      
   Maybe not, but my FreeBSD system has MTU of 16384 on lo0, and   
   my linux system has 16436 on lo.  If I remember back to SunOS 3.5   
   days, I don't remember the large MTU on lo0.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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