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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!204.177.71.9!viper.shadow.net!hyper!alam From: alam@hyper.shadow.net (Arthur Lammoglia) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: why 2 lo0 (loopbacks) Date: 8 Dec 1996 17:26:37 GMT Organization: Shadow Information Services Lines: 10 Message-ID: <58etod$95o@viper.shadow.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hyper.shadow.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Why are 2 loopback devices listed when I do a netstat -ain ? And why does one of them show <Link> as the net/dest? What is the purpose? And while I'm at it , why is lp0 also listed ? thanks for any info, Art