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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.
The processing of any packets sent to a loopback address is implemented in the link layer of the TCP/IP stack. Such packets are never delivered to any network interface controller (NIC) or device driver, which permits testing of software in the absence of any hardware network interfaces.