i want to use my stand alone computer for some network programming... i head that it could be done using loop back ip 127.0.0.1.. how can i do that...? or where can i find a tutorial for that...?
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i want to use my stand alone computer for some network programming... i head that it could be done using loop back ip 127.0.0.1.. how can i do that...? or where can i find a tutorial for that...?
(as root) ifconfig will probably show you that 127.0.0.1 is already looped back to your own computer.
Mine says (besides other stuff):
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lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0