What is the loopback address and what is its purpose?

What will be an ideal response?


The loopback address is 127.0.0.1. When you tell a device to send data to 127.0.0.1, you are telling that device to send the packets to itself. The loopback address has a number of uses. One of the most common is to use it with the ping command. You may use the command ping 127.0.0.1 to test a computer's network stack.
 

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What does the OUI represent?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which function removes an item from the queue?

A. remove() B. front() C. push() D. pop()

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A. a denial of service attack? B. ?Wi-fi piggybacking C. ?war driving D. ?a brick breaking attack

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