Loopback
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Loopback (also written loop-back) is the routing of electronic signals or digital data streams back to their source without intentional processing or modification. It is primarily a means of testing the communications infrastructure.
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- IPv4 routing prefix
- 127.0.0.0/8
- IPv6 routing prefix
- ::1/128
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