Top "Loopback" questions

In telecommunications, loopback, or a loop, is a hardware or software method which feeds a received signal or data back to the sender.

What is the purpose of the Microsoft Loopback Adapter?

Just as the question says, what is the Microsoft Loopback Adapter, and as a bonus, what scenerios as a developer …

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TCP loopback connection vs Unix Domain Socket performance

Working on an Android and iOS based application which require communication with a server running in the same device. Currently …

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How to mount one partition from an image file that contains multiple partitions on Linux?

The image file has a partition table, and it contains multiple partitions. loopback devices might be a possibility. Related threads: …

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Serial port loopback/duplex test, in Bash or C? (process substitution)

I have a serial device set up as loopback (meaning it will simply echo back any character it receives), and …

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Docker on CentOS 7.2: kernel:unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1

I'm running Docker on CentOS 7, from time to time there's the following message displayed: Message from syslogd@dev-master at Mar 29 17:23:03 ... …

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JMeter - Loopback address error when launching jmeter-server on Linux

I'm trying to set up a distributed load testing environment using JMeter. I need to set up the remote clients …

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Microsoft Edge does not allow localhost loopback for websockets

I have web-site and desktop application, and I want to connect them by websockets. So my web-site tries to connect …

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MongoError: user is not allowed to do action

I am using MongoDB Atlas as my database. I am using angular4 with loopback as api. My application connects to …

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linux: disable using loopback and send data via wire between 2 eth cards of one comp

I have a comp with 2 eth cards, connected with patch-cord (direct eth. cable from 1st to 2nd). The linux is …

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Linux Loopback performance with TCP_NODELAY enabled

I recently stumbled on an interesting TCP performance issue while running some performance tests that compared network performance versus loopback …

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