Thanks Brad. That was my suspicion, but I was having trouble locating .NET documentation that just came out and said it.
-----Original Message----- From: Brad Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Sockets on one machine? Erskine, Bill wrote: > My question is if an application sends and receives socket communication on > the same machine, does it actually use the NIC card? No. > And how can I verify this? You can trust me? :) (Local communications go through what's called a "loopback" adapter, which sorta simulates a network card, but for local communication.) Brad -- Read my web log at http://www.quality.nu/dotnetguy/ You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
