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

[Timon, John]

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

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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.-