SUMMARY: lo0 loopback usage explained

From: pelicancomputers (rfransix@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 16:56:11 EDT


thanks everyone for your time.

> Well ... any network traffic destined to the local
> host is going to go over the loopback, even if you
> try to use the ip on another interface ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pelicancomputers [mailto:rfransix@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:41 AM
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: lo0 loopback usage explained
>
>
> can you explain why the lo0 interface has such a
> high usage? where is all this usage going to? should
> it be corrected? how?
>
> # netstat -rn
>
> Routing Table: IPv4
> Destination Gateway Flags Ref
>
> Use Interface
> -------------------- -------------------- -----
> -----
> ------ ---------
> 66.111.176.16 66.111.176.18 U
> 1
> 598 eri0
> 224.0.0.0 66.111.176.18 U
> 1
> 0 eri0
> default 66.111.176.17 UG
> 1
> 6413
> 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH
> 397998691 lo0
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