On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > you can easily find them by scanning the > knowledge base for "loopback adapter". :-)
Hah! :-) And a good tip, actually. Thanks... > much of the windows infrastructure depends on RPC (both > local and remote RPC) [and starting in Win7/2008R2 on WinRM]. Which is understandable. Make local access a degenerate case of network access. Simpler, more flexible code that way. But I don't get why I need to explicitly install the loopback adapter. I can "ping 127.0.0.1" without doing that. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
