How to access loopback adapter from another PC on my LAN

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How to access loopback adapter from another PC on my LAN

I have installed MS Loop-back adapter and have given it a static IP: 10.10.10.9

my laptop is configured as 10.10.10.30 , and my gateway is 10.10.10.1

i can ping the loop-back NIC from my laptop, but not from any other machine on the LAN. i am trying to beat the 65k port limitation by seeing if i can have virtual IP addresses on one machine and each can then give me 65k ports

thanks.

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Take a look here for setting up IP alias on Windows (disclaimer - I don't own any windows machines, so can't really verify this).

Nikolai N Fetissov 2010-07-30 20:39:05

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By very definition, you CANNOT talk to a loopback adapter from any other machine but your own.

If on Linux, you could bridge it to a physical adapter, such as eth0, but why would you want to do that?

Chris Kaminski 2010-07-30 20:48:40

I need to have multiple IP addresses on he same machine.then i can run each instance of my code listening on each IP, so if i send requests in turn to each of these "virtual IPs" from another location on my lan, each instance should be able to correctly respond to it's particular requests

CharlesO 2010-08-01 10:14:37

@CharlesO: you can add as many IPs as you want to the physical adapter, Linux or Windows.

Chris Kaminski 2010-08-01 19:40:39

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