[mythtv-users] Re:RE:Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more id eas?

[Eloy A. Paris]

"Timon, John" <john.timon at labatt.com> writes:

> actually loopback traffice does not go out on the wire.  it short circuits
> through the kernel.  

That's exactly what I said (in different words.) Read my posting
carefully.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: peloy at chapus.net [mailto:peloy at chapus.net] 
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:40 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re:RE:Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more
> ideas?
>
>
> "Tony Maro" <tony at maro.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>> It's a frontend/backend combination, but I configured it to use it's 
>> NIC address as the master server so that I could set up the frontend 
>> on my desktop PC as well.
>>
>> But, I just changed my backend IP to be 127.0.0.1 (so localhost only 
>> usage, shouldn't go over the NIC) and tried setting it to MPEG4 with a 
>> bitrate of 1800 and it still froze at about 20 minutes.
>
> This shouldn't matter - the kernel is smart enough to know that traffic to
> itself using the NIC IP address should go to the local interface. Try
> pinging your NIC's IP address and run "tcpdump -i lo". You'll see the ICMP
> echo requests/replies there.
>
> Eloy.-
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