On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, cheryl wrote:

>
> A relevant piece of information might be *which* windows?
>
> Win2K for example has a very nonstandard way of of talking
> to loopback/localhost (127.0.0.1). Specifically, it uses
> a large MTU which introduces all sorts of timing problems
> in the TCP/IP stack. Not a problem with NT.
>
> So it wouldn't be surprizing if there were also serious
> problems introduced when using .255 as a host rather than
> broadcast addy. Possibly also having to do with MTU's.
>
> Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Redmond?
>
> <advocacy>
> Aww...just switch to linux! :-) At least then there's a
> hope of diagnosing and fixing the problem at the source,
> rather than "trying things" until something works.
> </advocacy>
>
> Cheryl

pts/0 juha@vimfuego:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:4A:BF:96
          inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:8611458 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9210342 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:1213683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1213683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

How much larger than that is the Win2K loopback MTU?

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