[mythtv-users] FC4 VIA-II problems

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Thu Nov 17 03:36:58 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 00:03 -0800, Blake wrote:
> But since the machine can ping itself both at  
> localhost and at the IP I've set it up as (192.168.0.240) I'm not sure  
> it's relevant.

FYI, a ping to loopback or to your own IP address will never get as far
as the NIC since Linux will short circuit the path of the packet in the
network stack.

Ian.
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