What is Loopback device??

[Truls Gulbrandsen]

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Eric Brunson wrote:
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| loopback has always been there, its ipaddress is 127.0.0.1, right? It
| loops back to the machine. Don't try to disable it, disabling it will
| break things.
|
| I have a Thinkpad X30, the Intel 82801 is your IO controller for USB,
| IDE, AC’97, SMBus, PCI, ACPI, LAN, and LPC.
|
| Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
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| Hi,
| After yesterdays yum update I got a new network device named: Loopback
| device; which is enabled and activated by default.
|
| System-config-network says it cannot be disabled nor changed.
|
| I also got another harware installed named:Intel Corporation 82801;
| device: dev2542.
|
| I have FC5t2 installed to an IBM TP T30 with a Cisco 350 pcmcia wlan
| card.
|
| Why these new settings and are they correct?
|
| Regards,
| Truls
ok, thanks for info.

So what this update did was just to make it all visible in the
system-config-network?

Truls
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