RE: [h-e-w] gnuserv and loopback IP address

[Guy Gascoigne-Piggford]

That's not completely true.  If you have a single adapter on NT and you are
disconnected from the network then you stack goes into a non-operative mode
and so 127.0.0.1 stops working.  You can get around this by disabling the
auto net detection (there's a reg entry that I've forgotten to do this) or
by adding a loopback adapter which dodges the issue by always giving you a
network connection that is working.

Guy


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Rumney [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:50 AM
To: John J. Lee
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] gnuserv and loopback IP address

"John J. Lee" <address@hidden> writes:

> 2. What should the loopback IP address be?  Windows refuses to accept
> 127.0.0.1, but if I put in some other address, how does gnuserv know what
> IP address to use?

gnuserv will use 127.0.0.1

The loopback adapter is not necessary for 127.0.0.1 to work, that
special address is handled internally by the TCP/IP stack.  The
loopback adapter is only really useful for testing and in certain
types of clustering setup.  So the advice you have received to
install the loopback adapter is faulty.