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How to access loopback adapter from another PC on my LAN

I have installed MS Loop-back adapter and have given it a static IP: 10.10.10.9

my laptop is configured as 10.10.10.30 , and my gateway is 10.10.10.1

i can ping the loop-back NIC from my laptop, but not from any other machine on the LAN. i am trying to beat the 65k port limitation by seeing if i can have virtual IP addresses on one machine and each can then give me 65k ports

thanks.

Solution

  • By very definition, you CANNOT talk to a loopback adapter from any other machine but your own.

    If on Linux, you could bridge it to a physical adapter, such as eth0, but why would you want to do that?