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I have found this question for Windows 7 many times (example), but this does not work on Windows 10, because I don't think the loopback network adapter is exposed in the same location. At least for me, I don't see a loopback device in my device manager.
Is there somewhere besides device manager that I need to look in order to disable the loopback adapter in Windows 10?
When installed on Windows Vista or later (including Win7, Win8 and Win10) with option 'Support loopback traffic ('Npcap Loopback Adapter' will be created)' selected, it will create an Npcap Loopback Adapter that can be selected in Wireshark so as to capture IPv4/IPv6 loopback traffic. Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. Does anyone knows how to make this loopback adapter works?ive manage to install it but it doesnt work i mean it gives me a yellow sign you know the exclamation mark icon. The loopback adapter was a suitable work around for those issues. These days, I would only use a loopback adapter with virtual machines (think VMware/VPC) IF the host machine didn’t have a physical network connection. A loopback adapter will give you a working TCP/IP stack. On Windows 7, it’s not obvious or easy to add a loopback adapter. We’ve covered setup for the loopback adapter in XP and Vista but for reasons unknown Microsoft annoyingly has decided to hide the “Add New Hardware wizard” in Windows 7. This changes the setup process around and can make it very difficult to start, so here is a new groovy How-To guide just for installing the Windows 7 Loopback adapter!
Click Add Hardware 3. Select Install Hardware from list, 4. Select Network Adapters 5. Select Microsoft as the Manufacturer 6. Select Microsoft loopback Adapter 7. Click Next and Install. With Windows 7, there is a slight problem; 'Add Hardware' is no longer in the Control Panel. The software (as Oracle Database, EPM, ) needs to have Windows using the loopback adapter to mimic a fix IP. The primary adapter is determined by the order in which you installed the adapters: it is the last adapter installed. If you install additional network adapters after you install the loopback adapter, you need.
EDIT: The reason I would like to do this is to simulate a drop in internet connection for testing purposes. I am a developer programming a distributed application with Wamp. I have a Wamp router, and a subscriber. When a connection goes down, I need to ensure that my design reconnects to the server when the connection comes back up. However, I'm having trouble testing this scenario without running the router and subscriber on different machines. Having them both on the same machine would be nice for testing.
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OK, so the answer given by @Ramhound in the comments I think is the correct answer for the title problem.
They changed the name of it to Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter. Read the instructions carefully by Kate LI. I have personally verified they do indeed work.
However, for my problem this did not work because installing this adapter, and disabling it did not stop local traffic from routing to localhost. Most peculiar in my opinion.
The answer for me was given by @strangeqargo, which was to use clumsy, which according to the github docs leverages WinDivert. It's most useful, and this is what got the job done for me. It successfully stopped packets sent from localhost and/or packets sent to localhost.
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Once our development systems are upgraded from windows XP to windows 7, my debug setup has stopped working.
Steps followed in original setup (Windows XP):
Steps followed in original setup (Windows XP):
- Add two loopback adapters
- Assign ipv4 172.16.16.1 to one adapter and 172.16.24.1 address to another adapter
- Start an Java application (source code is with us) which will bind to 172.16.24.1 address
- Start another Java application (source code is not with us), which will bind to 172.16.16.1
Add Ms Loopback Adapter Windows 7
Both application will run on same machine and they will start communication to each other. Everything works!
I have followed the similar procedure in windows 7 and 8, but it did not worked.
I have captured the wireshark logs for both the loopback adapters and one packet for each are as follows:
I have followed the similar procedure in windows 7 and 8, but it did not worked.
I have captured the wireshark logs for both the loopback adapters and one packet for each are as follows:
172.16.16.1
172.16.24.1
Could somebody please point me in the direction to resolve this?
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