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Note: Hard loopback tests are intrusive and will impact service. In a hard loopback, a special loopback plug is used in order to loop the traffic from the T1 port back into the T1 port. This figure illustrates the setup for hard loopback.
A loopback address is a special IP address, 127.0.0.1, reserved by InterNIC for use in testing network cards. This IP address corresponds to the software loopback interface of the network card, which does not have hardware associated with it, and does not require a physical connection to a network.