title: Pinging personal IP versus pinging loopback
body: <p>What's the conceptual difference? Yes I realize they're both supposed to produce similar results but I thought the idea with the loopback was that it doesn't actually reach the transmission step of the stack. If that's true then why does pinging your own ip work as fast? Does pinging your own address treat it as a loopback? I thought there was a fundamental difference to how the two were treated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for any help!</p>