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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.
In what follows, I will describe how to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter on Windows 7 (apparently it works the same for Vista). For other flavours of Windows, such as XP and 2000, 2003 Server, a very simple search will do the job.