[plug] How does the "127.0.0.1" address work?

[Arie Hol]

On 28 Oct 2007 at 2:55, Fred Janon wrote:

> I am working on an application that needs to be accessed through the
> network and also accessed locally. since I don't want to implement 2
> different modes of access and use the HTTP port for both (using
> 127.0.0.1 for local access) I'd like to know what is the performance
> difference in accessing the application through the 127.0.0.1 network
> address compared to accessing from another computer on the network,
> assuming that the network performance is pretty good (100Mb/sec or
> more).
> 
> I wonder how does the network access through the 127.0.0.1 address
> work. Is is a special path inside the network driver? Is it a loopback
> at some level inside the network stack?
> 
> Does anyone a resource on the Web that describes how the "127.0.0.1"
> address is supposed to be implemented?
> 

For a little insight into 127.0.0.1 goto :

http://what-is-what.com/what_is/127.0.0.1.html


Regards Arie
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