Garrett D'Amore writes:
> Will IP use the link MTU for packets that are ultimately to itself. I.e. 
> packets that are going to be looped back in IP, but are not for the 
> 127.0.0.0 subnet.

No.  It uses lo0's MTU for all local addresses.

> It seems that in such cases it could use a potentially 
> much larger MTU for packets that a really just going to be redirected 
> back to self, even when the IP address is associated with an interface 
> that has a much smaller MTU.

Except that it doesn't do this ...

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