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Sam Lewis wrote:
> I was looking at the netstat -s output for my laptop and found these 
> ports talking to each other
>  SOCK       TYPE              FOREIGN             LOCAL           
> FOREIGN         STATE
>                    PORT             PORT                     HOST
> ======  =====      ==========      ==========      ==========    ========
> This appears to be from Mozilla 1.7.7
> 24 STREAM           54811           54812       127.0.0.1  ESTABLISH
> 25 STREAM           54812           54811       127.0.0.1  ESTABLISH
>
> This is from Firefox 2.x
> 1074 STREAM           55115           55116       127.0.0.1  ESTABLISH
> 1075 STREAM           55116           55115       127.0.0.1  ESTABLISH
> 1080 STREAM           55117           55118       127.0.0.1  ESTABLISH
> 1081 STREAM           55118           55117       127.0.0.1  ESTABLISH
>
>
> Why are these applications establishing streams between themselves?
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
I am not sure of the reason why... I just know that it is by design.  
That is why the readme says to make sure that the loopback is enabled.
Andy