Microsoft Loopback adapter

[hkaldas]

Hi,

I did alot of searching and couldn't find the answer to this
question. I need to add a few virtual NICs to workstations. In my test
I added 2 Microsoft Loopback Adapters. Each adapter was set with a
Static IP Address.

On the Workstation I can ping any of the Loopback adapters and it
works fine. The problem is the IP Addresses of the Loopback adapters
are not visiable from outside the workstation. When I try to ping the
Loopback addresses from another workstation, it doesn't work. Pinging
the NIC works, but not the loopback adapter.

Can anyone shed some light on this ?

Thanks

 

[Phillip Windell]

On the Workstation I can ping any of the Loopback adapters and it
works fine. The problem is the IP Addresses of the Loopback adapters
are not visiable from outside the workstation. When I try to ping the
Loopback addresses from another workstation, it doesn't work. Pinging
the NIC works, but not the loopback adapter.

That is the way it is supposed to be. If you want the machine to respond to
multiple IP#s (from the same subnet) put all the IP# on the same Nic (the
real nic).

 

[hkaldas]

Tx for the response Phillip,

I tried that already, when you give the NIC Card the same IP Address
as the loopback card, you get an IP Conflict.

 

[Phillip Windell]

Get rid of the Loopback adapters first. You don't need them.