From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:45:05 -0800
> Maybe Solaris (and Windows?) have special-case handling for local TCP. It > seems a bit odd to me that loopback would use normal handling for things > like slow-start and congestion, but I'm sure there's a good reason ;) Devices are black boxes, and because arbitrary kinds of packet rewriting and redirection are possible, you have to keep that abstraction and even if you know the physical device you can't assign hard coded metrics to it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
