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In computer networking, localhost is a hostname that refers to the current computer used to access it. The name localhost is reserved for loopback purposes. [1] It is used to access the network services that are running on the host via the loopback network interface.
Where a system (such as a modem) involves round-trip analog-to-digital processing, a distinction is made between analog loopback, where the analog signal is looped back directly, and digital loopback, where the signal is processed in the digital domain before being re-converted to an analog signal and returned to the source.
In Solaris/OpenSolaris, the loop device is called "loopback file interface" or lofi, [2] and located at /dev/lofi/1, etc. SunOS has the configuration program lofiadm. lofi supports read-only compression and read-write encryption. Available is also a 3rd-party driver fbk (File emulates Blockdevice), for SunOS/Solaris since summer 1988. [3]
FreeLAN, open-source, free, multi-platform IPv4, IPv6 and peer-to-peer VPN software over UDP/IP. n2n , an open source Layer 2 over Layer 3 VPN application which uses a peer-to-peer architecture for network membership and routing
Link-local addresses may be assigned manually by an administrator or by automatic operating system procedures. In Internet Protocol (IP) networks, they are assigned most often using stateless address autoconfiguration, a process that often uses a stochastic process to select the value of link-local addresses, assigning a pseudo-random address that is different for each session.
Network interface device, a device that serves as the demarcation point between a telephone carrier's local loop and the customer's wiring; Virtual network interface, an abstract virtualized representation of a computer network interface Loopback interface, a virtual network interface that connects a host to itself
The claim in the edit comment by Kbrose that 0.0.0.0 "is not a loopback network" is technically true of the _network_ 0.0.0.0/8 -- on one view of what a "loopback network" is, which is really not precisely defined in any of the IP standards -- but if it is meant to imply that 0.0.0.0/32 is "not a loopback address" it's false, both empirically ...
Loopback device may refer to: Loopback, related to electronic communication interfaces; Loop device, a pseudo-device in Unix-like operating systems