Thanks Lee, Do you know why my Router’s Mac Address printed on the router ends in 9c but in the App it says the last two digits are 9D?
> On Aug 6, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Aug 6, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I’ve identified all of my devices on my network in Who’s on my Wifi. >> >> I have one device I can’t identify. In safari I entered the ip address for >> my router (ATT Uverse router). >> >> Searching through the router I found the Mac Address I can’t identify in >> Who’s on my WiFi and it’s labeled “Local Host. >> >> Can someone please explain what this means? > > On most operating systems localhost is the internal network address of the > local computer. It usually lives at ip 127.0.0.1 in IPv4 and ::1 in IPv6. > Your router is probably running some form of Linux (most do), so you inherit > the standard Linux localhost. (Actually, in IPv4, any address starting with > 127 will resolve to localhost.) > > The localhost address is used internally by the operating system to talk to > itself via what’s called the loopback interface. > > L^2 > > --- > Lee Larson > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, > whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth? — Sherlock Holmes > The Sign of Four > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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