Where does loopback short circuit ?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:02:27AM -0700, John Chludzinski wrote:
> I've had a debate with some co-workers about whether or not a message
> that's sent to the loopback interface makes it way into the IP layer and
> is fragmented before flowing back up the network stack.  Does it?

Can you please not keep creating new top level threads.

Furthermore, this is not an appropriate mailing list to discuss any
general (not even Linux) networking issues that you may have.  It's
more appropriate for a venue such as stackoverflow.

Rich.

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