From: "Andy Willis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:09:40 -0600
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: OT: Netstat
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Well, I was curious what is said and now I am curious why I can't find 
it.  Here is a little on it that sounds right:
<http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=276194&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a>
Andy
Sam Lewis wrote:
> 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