[Gllug] SuSE, firewall, BT broadband and IP

[Sudhir Anand]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 23:55, Tethys wrote:
> 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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Thank you.  This explains a number of misconceptions I had about loopback 
addresses.  As an accountant, I sometimes find some computing terms a little 
difficult to comprehand.


Sudhir Anand
Andson

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