How brain-damaged!
Oh well, it's windows.. what should I expect? a sane OS?
*sighs*
And people VOLUNTARILY run this software?
-derek
Rodney M Dyer <rmdyer@uncc.edu> writes:
> All,
>
> At 06:56 PM 4/1/2004, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>Why don't you just suggest 127.0.0.1?
>
> You can't use that address on a Windows box. The 127.0.0.1 address is
> a built in loopback address built in to the TCP/IP stack. This
> loopback address exists even without the MS Loopback virtual network
> adapter installed.
>
> When configuring the MS Loopback virtual network adapter you must
> remember the following on Windows...
>
> 1. Windows already provides the TCP/IP loopback address 127.0.0.1.
>
> 2. The MS loopback virtual network adapter will automatically be
> provided the following by Windows routing...
>
> a. TCP/IP broadcast resolution.
> b. Loopback resolution
> c. Network broadcast resolution.
> d. Multicast resolution.
>
> In this case your subnet mask must always allow for at least 4
> addresses. Eg, the rightmost two bits of the mask must always be zero.
>
> 3. You may also be running some local applications that the loopback
> adapter will interfere with if you set an address that is outside your
> network. At our site for example, several of our applications are
> licensed. The license code built in to those applications must think
> they are on the proper subnet. Some of the applications looked at the
> loopback address instead of the real network card. In that case the
> software didn't run. We had to use a loopback address that was within
> our own subnet.
>
> Rodney
>
>
>
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