[KLUG Members] Network speed question.

[adam at morrison-ind.com]

> Please settle a disagreement I'm having with a tech support person.
> I have a package, who's configuration needs to know the location
> (server IP) of a separate service it needs.
> The service happens to be running on the same box.  Will it run faster
> to specify the IP "127.0.0.1" as opposed to the IP or DNS name of eth0?
> Now pretend the server is Window 2003 instead of Linux.  Same question.

I'd have no idea in that case.  Can you do a flood ping on Windows?  Also I'd
worry if you had the firewall enabled on the external interface,  that would
certainly reduce performance.