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|    Pascal Hambourg to All    |
|    Re: When are payload lengths greater tha    |
|    28 Nov 09 13:46:20    |
      4101e53c       From: boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org              David Schwartz a écrit :       >       > 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.              What do you mean ? Here on Linux the loopback device looks very much       like any other network device, it sends and receives packets even for a       stream connection like TCP.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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