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   Message 13,225 of 14,669   
   Pascal Hambourg to All   
   Re: When are payload lengths greater tha   
   28 Nov 09 13:46:20   
   
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   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.   
      
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