RE: Network interface card required for xAP.

[Sullivan, Glenn]

Have you guys tried to add the "MS Loopback" adapter to the
network control
panel?

In win9x and ME, it was just a network driver that you could add that
created a pseudo network card without the hardware.

I believe that MS dropped it as an official driver in win2K, but it is
still
available for 2000 and XP. But since this guy has 98se, it should work
fine.

Just a guess,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.

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Subject: [xap_automation] Network interface card required for xAP.


I have just witnessed a very arduous exchange of 'support' that has taken
place on the xPL list when an unfortunate new user was trying to get xPL
set
up and running. His problem turned out to be that he had no network card
installed - and hadn't appreciated this was a mandatory requirement. I have
to sympathise as this is not stated anywhere for either xPL or xAP. We
would
probably have taken just as long to pinpoint the problem. I can also see
that for a single PC this is an unfortunate requirement.

So - an obvious question - is there a way of creating a network loopback
operation on a standard (no NIC) PC with W98 upwards that would be workable
- and is there any benefit here of the use of the loopback interface
127.0.0.1 rather than a real interface address... I think for xAP we may
implement this slightly differently to xPL which may help.

Does the Ethernet loopback interface work without a NIC card present ?? -
and our hubs ??

Kevin





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