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What is the purpose of loopback address?

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Question added by venkatesh perumal velayutham
Date Posted: 2016/09/17
Bassam Mohsen Mostafa ElBoghdady
by Bassam Mohsen Mostafa ElBoghdady , Network Security Engineer , Egyptian Arab Land Bank | Mohandsen

Create virtual interface that insure validity of NIC and your network component and either to be redundunt 

Alemam Atta Alah Alemam Hamad
by Alemam Atta Alah Alemam Hamad , Network Engineer , Khaled Zaroug Engineering

The purpose for a loopback is to create an interface that is not tied to a physical link. This is for redundancy in case one link goes down or needs to be maintained 

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