Http ://m/free/t_I PReservedP rivateandL oopbackAdd resses.htmĬCNA R&S, ETA FOI RE: CLARIFICATION - PING LOOPBACK OSI LAYERS burtsbees (Programmer) 12 Feb 09 09:30 127.0.0.1 is the address most commonly used for testing purposes. Since the lower layers are short-circuited, sending to a loopback address allows the higher layers (IP and above) to be effectively tested without the chance of problems at the lower layers manifesting themselves. The purpose of the loopback range is testing of the TCP/IP protocol implementation on a host. In essence, this represents a "short-circuiting" of the normal protocol stack data is sent by a device's layer three IP implementation and then immediately received by it. Instead, they "loop back" to the source device at the IP level. IP datagrams sent by a host to a 127.x.x.x loopback address are not passed down to the data link layer for transmission. However, one special range of addresses is set aside for loopback functionality. That datagram then passes down to the data link layer of the device's physical network for transmission to the next hop, on the way to the IP destination. Normally, when a TCP/IP application wants to send information, that information travels down the protocol layers to IP where it is encapsulated in an IP datagram. This would suggest that either layer 3 alone (OSI) is tested or 3-7! LoL Let me further confuse and complicate matters. LoL So simple a topic such as an ICMP echo request yet so much controversy! LoL Please let me know what you guys think and thanks for your view Tad!ĬCNA R&S, ETA FOI RE: CLARIFICATION - PING LOOPBACK OSI LAYERS maczen (Instructor) This is becoming a very interesting topic and I am quite curious to see where it goes. I still feel that a regular ping would test 1-3 and a loopback 1-4 (due to the TCP stack test) but I have been wrong before. (6)) is occurring nor anything at the application layer! Furthermore, no presentation (ASCII/EBCDIC/encryption etc. Regardless, a session would not be established (5) although the TCP software was tested. oad.wikime dia.org/wi kipedia/co mmons/thum b/3/3b/UDP _encapsula tion.svg/3 50px-UDP_e ncapsulati on.svg.png Tad, that is the logic that I was following with the exception that I considered the TCP/IP stack more of a layer 4 hence my (personal view) of a loopback ping testing 1-4 OSI. Sorry, said can not ping but meant can not capture ping traffic with or without the loopback adapter installed.
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