<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div>On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 10:40 AM Andrea Pappacoda <<a href="mailto:andrea@pappacoda.it">andrea@pappacoda.it</a>> wr<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Il giorno ven 9 set 2022 alle 17:37:14 +02:00:00, Lennart Poettering <br>
<<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" target="_blank">lennart@poettering.net</a>> ha scritto:<br>
> People sometimes route stuff onto the loopback device in addition to<br>
> the the usual <a href="http://127.0.0.0/8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">127.0.0.0/8</a> traffic so that it ends up on local sockets.<br>
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Thanks for the reply, but I don't fully understand the implications of <br>
this, nor how sd-network is related - I'm quite ignorant when it comes <br>
to networking :/<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">Well, easiest to explain is user apps that use tcp or udp sockets to communicate. If they are on the same host, then huge gains can be achieved by using the loopback adapter (especially TCP comms).</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">You should google search for loopback MTUs..</div></div></div>