Re: Online Instance Question

In article <5dqfq0$1dc@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Jonathan Leffler <johnl@informix.com> writes > >I think, but don't know, that loopbacks do not actually send the data >onto the physical network. > Correct - it is handled internally by the IP device driver which recogises the loopback address specially. Packets are taken off the IP output queue and put directly back onto the IP input queue. No lower layers like ethernet etc are involved. >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> -- David Williams