created in response to thread on JGroups users group to-day , please read fragment below
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Maybe it should be changed! I'll let Bela respond!

On 2010-02-03, at 12:31 PM, seamus donohue wrote:

> > the default udp.xml in 2.8 GA has loopback set to false
> > <UDP
> > mcast_port="${jgroups.udp.mcast_port:45588}"
> > tos="8"
> > ucast_recv_buf_size="20M"
> > ucast_send_buf_size="640K"
> > mcast_recv_buf_size="25M"
> > mcast_send_buf_size="640K"
> > loopback="false" <---------
> >
> > is there a reason for that - should it not be changed based on your note
> > below referring to members not getting their own suspicion messages.
> >
> > -Seamus
> >
> > Bela Ban wrote:
>> >> Hard for me to tell what's going on, without either being able to
>> >> reproduce this, or having access to logs. The former being much better
>> >> than the latter.
>> >>
>> >> Your props look a bit weird, I would correct the following (and I
>> >> suggest using XML configs rather than string-based ones):
>> >>
>> >> * UDP.loopback should be true, or else members don't get their own
>> >> suspicion messages. This might be the root problem...
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