actually, there is a little complication here, which is sometimes http goes out over the wire if you have 'use a proxy server' turned on and you are calling your box by machine name, rather than localhost.
I ended up editing drivers/etc/hosts with the system name to stop my notebook getting horribly confused from time to time. If you use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as the address, you should get loopback without going near the NIC, but adding localhost 127.0.0.1 to hosts makes sure of this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Negritoiu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 03:21 Subject: Re: Sockets on one machine? > Actually, as mentioned in a previous post, when dealing with only one > machine you don't even need a NIC. Install the Microsoft Loopback Adaptor > under Network Adapters when you add new hardware. > > HTH. > > -- Stefan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ted Faison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:44 PM > Subject: Re: Sockets on one machine? > > > To answer your question: only one NIC needed when the sender and receiver > are on the same computer. The sender uses one socket, the receiver another. > > --Ted > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
