In my opinion, this should be the default setting for the loopback driver, but it isn’t. This indicates to Windows that it is not a true network device that connects to an external network. In order to calm Windows down, we need to make a registry change to mark our loopback adapter as an endpoint device. The “Internal Connection” device says it is on the “Unidentified Network” which means that Windows thinks you are connected to a “Public Network” which means that Windows Firewall will block Windows File and Printer sharing. Choose something from one of the ranges defined by the IETF as private: 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16.įor my example, I’m going to subnet the 10 network and use 10.237.0.1 mask 255.255.0.0 with no default gateway or DNS servers defined.Īt this point, if you are running Windows Vista or 7, you may notice a small problem. Now you can manually assign a static IP address to this connection. I like to rename this to something more descriptive like “loopback” or “Internal Connection”. It will probably be called something like “Local Area Connection (2)”.
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Select Microsoft as the manufacturer and “Microsoft Loopback Adapter” as the network adapter.įinish out the wizard and it will create a new network device which will appear in your “Network Connections” control panel (ncpa.cpl). Next you should see a list of common hardware types. This should bring up the Add Hardware wizard.
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Install the loopback adapter via Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) by right-clicking on the root “computer” node and selecting “Add legacy hardware”. It provides a way for us to create a shared network between the virtual machines and the host machines without altering the configuration of any real network interfaces.
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The loopback adapter is a virtual network interface device. If the proxy is running on your host OS and the browsers in the client VMs use the host OS proxy then, from the perspective of webdev.webserver in your host OS, all of the requests will appear to originate from localhost and it will serve them.
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The key is to run your different versions of IE in virtualization software and use a personal proxy server to forward their requests. Last time I discussed the the unfortunate crippling of the Visual Studio built-in web server, webdev.webserver, so that it can only process requests that originate from localhost and the side-effect that this creates a big impedance barrier to testing multiple versions of Internet Explorer with your web apps.