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Why has Microsoft never implemented a loopback interface in Windows?
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Mar 15, 20268156 viewsConfidence Score0%
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First things first: I know that you can install a sort-of-a Loopback Adapter in Windows. But what I really found strange is that there exists nothing like on Windows. At all. From The missing network loopback interface: Windows TCP/IP stack does not implement a network loopback interface, as found …
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Historical reasons. From the ground up unix/linux has always been about the network. Whereas MS-DOS/Windows bolted the network on as an afterthought, initially with Windows own 'NetBIOS' rather than TCPIP. Only when Netscape came along was it necess…
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