7 Aug
2004
7 Aug
'04
16:38
CH, On Saturday 07 August 2004 09:10, C Hamel wrote:
On Saturday 07 August 2004 09:37, Anders Johansson wrote:
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It is the loopback device. All addresses starting with 127 will be resolved as loopback. It can be 127.0.0.1 or it can be 127.35.14.6. Try pinging 127.127.10.0 while running something like tcpdump. The pings will never leave your machine
So it is the 1st octet that determines this, apparently. Thanks for the explanation.
It's an old-fashioned (class-based) class A address: The host number occupies 7 bits of the first byte of the IP addressand the host number is the other 24 bits (the last three bytes) of the IP address.
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