After today’s update, I got another connection that I didn’t have before. And it cannot be removed, disconnected from it. What could it be?
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TriMoon
February 20, 2023, 3:52pm
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lo is the loopback network device, it is present on all computers, you should only worry if you did NOT have one
Sometimes on certain computers it is not shown, but it IS always present…
In Unix-like operating systems, a loop device, vnd (vnode disk), or lofi (loop file interface) is a pseudo-device that makes a computer file accessible as a block device.
Before use, a loop device must be connected to an extant file in the file system. The association provides the user with an application programming interface (API) that allows the file to be used in place of a block special file (cf. device file system). Thus, if the file contains an entire file system, the file may then be mou...
Loopback (also written loop-back) is the routing of electronic signals or digital data streams back to their source without intentional processing or modification. It is primarily a means of testing the communications infrastructure.
There are many example applications. It may be a communication channel with only one communication endpoint. Any message transmitted by such a channel is immediately and only received by that same channel. In telecommunications, loopback devices perform transmissio...
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Strit
February 20, 2023, 4:02pm
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Please search before posting.
Sometime in the past 2 days (not sure when exactly) a loopback network appeared in the KDE network settings. I am not sure exactly what triggered it. I do see the network being used, though I haven’t found a pattern for when that happens.
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$ ip address
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
in…
TriMoon:
lo is the loopback network device, it is present on all computers, you should only worry if you did NOT have one
Sometimes on certain computers it is not shown, but it IS always present
Thanks for the tip, otherwise I already started encrypting data and disconnecting all devices from the network (just kidding).
Strit
February 20, 2023, 4:07pm
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It’s a change in NetworkManager 1.42.
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I searched for the phrase lo network. I didn’t get clear information about it. I’m sorry for creating a burden.
system
February 23, 2023, 6:08am
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