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From: alam@hyper.shadow.net (Arthur Lammoglia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: why 2 lo0  (loopbacks)
Date: 8 Dec 1996 17:26:37 GMT
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Why are 2 loopback devices listed when I do  a  netstat -ain ?
And why does one of them  show  <Link> as the net/dest? What is
the purpose?  And while  I'm at it , why is lp0 also listed ?


thanks for any info,

Art