[Gllug] SuSE, firewall, BT broadband and IP

[Tethys]

Sudhir Anand writes:

>IP address 127.0.0.1 is an internal loopback address (not entirely sure what 
>this means!).

It means that packets sent to that IP address will be looped back to
the local machine. They're handled solely inside the kernel, and data
never makes it to a network card and onto the wire.

Tet

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