A Wireshark capture is shown with the Transmission Control Protocol section expanded. The item highlighted states Window size: 9017.
- tracing the path to a host computer on the network and the network has the IP address 127.0.0.1
- testing the integrity of the TCP/IP stack on the local machine
- pinging a host computer that has the IP address 127.0.0.1 on the network
- checking the IP address on the network card
Explanation: 127.0.0.1 is an address reserved by TCP/IP to test the NIC, drivers and TCP/IP implementation of the device.
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