It provides an interface that is always up. Good thing as if you were
pointing to a spwecific addres, ie ethernet, and it went down, there would
be a failure. On a loopback the routing process can determine the best path
to it - more redundancy
Andrew Larkins
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From: Jacques Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23 May 2000 17:17
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Subject: Loop back interface
What is a loopback interface for, besides the Router ID in OSPF ?
THx
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