Multiple Loopback Interfaces

[Juan Orti Alcaine]

El Jueves, 29 de agosto de 2013 06:38:00 John Chludzinski escribió:
> I need to used multiple loopback addresses (interfaces) for an server
> application that communicates with multiple clients running on the same
> machine.  Since a loopback interface short circuits the network stack
> (looping back in the IP layer) it is a more efficient means of
> communication, hence better for my purpose.
> 
> How do I define multiple loopback interfaces?
> 
> BTW, I'm a newbie to this mailing mailing list.  Hopefully this is an
> appropriate question?
> 
> ---John

In IPv4 you can get any IP in the 127.0.0.0/8 subnet for the lo interface.

What are you trying to do? binding more than one process to the same port 
number?

PS. It's probably better to use the fedora-users list for this kind of topics.
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