[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to understand what loopback interface is used for > and /how/ it is works.
I'm not exactly sure how it works. But it looks like a network interface, except it never leaves the box. This means that a Linux(UNIX) box with no network interfaces (no ethernet, no phone line, no ISDN, no toekn ring,no nothing) can still do all those neat networking protocol stuff. > Anyone got any examples of how an app uses loopback interface > effectively?? Start a webserver. http://127.0.0.1/ Start an ftp server, ncftp 127.0.0.1 Start an X server DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0; export DISPLAY (or setenv DISPLAY 127.0.0.1:0 for you *csh'rs) > I vaguely know it acts like a remote node without > actually being one. I'd like the details. Not sure what details you need. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
