> 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?
>
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

Did you fiddle yours ? As you can see, my lo adapter has a much smaller
MTU.. from a default slackware 7.1 install. I also note that your one
has a lot more activity than mine :)

And someone mentioned the default gw being the local address and was
worried about it - this is valid for a PPP connection... since there are
only two devices on a PPP, you can use the local interface as the
gateway.. because there's only one other device it can send data it
receives.. in fact, you can have a completely unnumbered PPP connection
(ie, no ip addresses at all), and just route through the device by
name.. but that can get messy.

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Ian Batterbee
Senior Network/Comms Technician (IT Group)
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand
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