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From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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As Roman Kurakin wrote:

> Problem:
> 	If we have max_failure < MAXALIVECNT*5 we will
> send conf-rej for magic.

> Solution:
> 	Loopback could be treated as a special case and
> thus we may not count it as a failure.

Can you explain a little more, please?  The patch is simple enough,
yes, but offhand I don't know what's the actual problem resulting out
of the above situation.

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