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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:20:42 +0200
From: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
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To: faisal gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: dummy NIC ?
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faisal gillani wrote:

>Is it possible to use a dummy NIC in Unix ? like
>windows have ms loopback adapter for people like to
>test nic configurations ?
>
Have a look at lo0, the loopback device, as well as the loopback address 
associated with it (usually: 127.0.0.1).

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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