From: "Sam Lewis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:58:36 -0600
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: OT: Netstat
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Andy,
Probably because it is becoming a more common sight and loopback 
interfaces are required for so many things now that they are always enabled.

Didn't mean to make you do any work.
Thanks,
Sam

Andy Willis wrote:

> Interesting, I went to check exactly what it said but it no longer 
> shows in the readme.  Used to say something about it being required 
> but nothing about it now.
> Andy
> Sam Lewis wrote:
>
>> Ah, the good ol readme.  Glad somebody reads them :).
>>
>> It seems odd that programs talk to themselves locally by way of 
>> network sockets.  But then again I'm not a programmer.  I saw this 
>> behavior while working on my daughter's Vista laptop and thought it 
>> was odd as well but I guess its a normal thing.
>> Andy thanks,
>> Sam
>>
>> Andy Willis wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>
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