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Posted: 2005-04-12 02:14am
by Darth Wong
Wicked Pilot wrote:Cabwi Desco wrote:Think of it as 'Home' for your computer.
You lost me, when I hit 'ipconfig' I get something different. You're going to have to explain it again on an even more dumb down level.
That's because ipconfig on Windows does not display the loopback interface as a separate network interface. It only shows your Ethernet interface.
On a linux box, ifconfig produces the following output:
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:80:00:E4:27
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::201:80ff:fe00:e427/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11458788 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16562123 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2487463323 (2372.2 Mb) TX bytes:1130857823 (1078.4 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3206757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3206757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:536138382 (511.3 Mb) TX bytes:536138382 (511.3 Mb)
Windows is simply dealing with you on a "need to know" basis, while Linux is more transparent.
Posted: 2005-04-12 02:15am
by Faram
Dennis Toy wrote:its your home computer number, its used to check to see if the network is at fault or your computer.
try this....
go to command prompt
at c:\ type ping 127.0.0.1
or try "ping localhost"
It is used for a shitload more than checking the network.
try typing "netstat -ano" in a command prompt, you vill see a lot of 127.0.0.1 there.
Posted: 2005-04-12 02:26am
by Chris OFarrell
*slowly claws way back to table after rolling around on the floor laughing my fucking ass off*
Got more then a few weird looks from the rest of the people in the lab. One even came over and asked what was so funny. I pointed, now HE is on the floor desperatly trying to breath because he is starting to choke on laughing so damn hard....
Posted: 2005-04-12 02:39am
by CaptainChewbacca
"Your c: is at 30%... hey, my stuff is running slowly..."
What kind of a hacker asks you to turn off your firewall?
Posted: 2005-04-12 03:06am
by Utsanomiko
What a dumb little script-kiddy piece of poser shit. I hope he wet his pants when he realized whose pc drives he actually erased.
Posted: 2005-04-12 03:31am
by CaptainChewbacca
Posted: 2005-04-12 03:42am
by Ace Pace
*Can't stop laughing*
That...takes the fucking cake, for ANYTHING.
Posted: 2005-04-12 09:41am
by wautd
hahaha ownage
I doubt he knows by now what really happened.
buy buy now
Posted: 2005-04-12 10:51am
by General Zod
i love to fuck with idiots like that. a few years ago when i was actually using aol's chatrooms, i told some dimwit to hit ctrl alt del to see a neat trick, which incidentally wound up closing down his isp (which of course was aol as well). though this is far more amusing.
Posted: 2005-04-12 11:18am
by Dooey Jo
Hahaha!!
Man that's even better than that kid who wanted to play Counterstrike and asked everyone to join his game at 192.168.0.14 (the funniest part about that was the other kids who wondered why it didn't work).
Posted: 2005-04-12 12:39pm
by Sharp-kun
The best one I saw was in a chat room where some guy was convinced he was being hacked because his modem lights were flashing. He was told to do various things, leading up to being told to go to a command prompt and type "deltree C:". He vanished a few seconds later
Posted: 2005-04-12 01:55pm
by Pablo Sanchez
Destructionator XIII wrote:Or in Starcraft: "Alt+f4 then x is god mode, press it really fast!!!!111!!oneone"
In Half-Life 1&2 and the daughter mods, whenever someone asks what button to use for any command, you should answer "F10." It's fun to do that and see how many people drop from the server.
Posted: 2005-04-12 01:58pm
by UCBooties
damnit, link is teh broke
Posted: 2005-04-12 02:04pm
by Loner
UCBooties wrote:damnit, link is teh broke
Ta-Da.
Posted: 2005-04-12 02:17pm
by UCBooties
awesome
Posted: 2005-04-12 06:11pm
by Mutant Headcrab
The funniest thing I've ever done was when Team Fortress Classic was updated to the new models. A bunch of people on the server was bitching about them and asking if anyone knew a way to change them. I told them to press f10. Half the server signed off at once. 'Twas great.
Posted: 2005-04-12 07:23pm
by Praxis
Hilarious!
Posted: 2005-04-12 08:21pm
by General Brock
Posted: 2005-04-12 10:39pm
by Enigma
That was sooooooooo funny.
Posted: 2005-04-13 05:42pm
by Davis 51
Uhh. I can't get to the link. It keeps telling me an error occured.
But from what I can deduce from this board, this guy was a total fucktard.
Edit: also, I have seen the F10 in action. Along with the "press ctrl-alt-del" key.
Posted: 2005-04-13 06:22pm
by Sharpshooter
Ditto - would one of you lucky buggers mind posting a transcript, please?
This sounds sorta like Cecil all over again...
EDIT:
Ahhhhhh-hahahahaha!!! This is
rich!
Posted: 2005-04-13 06:39pm
by General Zod
Davis 51 wrote:Uhh. I can't get to the link. It keeps telling me an error occured.
But from what I can deduce from this board, this guy was a total fucktard.
Edit: also, I have seen the F10 in action. Along with the "press ctrl-alt-del" key.
here's the present link.
Posted: 2005-04-13 07:05pm
by Vendetta
White Haven wrote:Also, if your network is borked, you can try pinging 127.0.0.1. If it fails, you KNOW the problem is with either your NIC or your TCP/IP stack. Useful troubleshooting tool.
Actually, on a Windows box you can successfully ping 127.0.0.1 if you have no NIC installed, as long as your modem is working or you have firewire.
If there are any otehr network interfaces present, it will really only tell you if the TCP/IP stack is hosed.
Posted: 2005-04-14 03:02am
by White Haven
Yep, but that's still a valuable piece of info. Then there was the time when some asshat had IPv6 installed...but let's not get into that asshattery.
