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<blockquote data-quote="Miwer" data-source="post: 931283" data-attributes="member: 132832">Well, I know this is an old thread, but that just makes it more of a mystery to me, that no one have caught this:&nbsp;You do NOT want to put the IP address of your loopback adapter in the &quot;Network Address&quot; edit box in the device properties. &quot;Network Address&quot; here means MAC address, and you should not need to alter it from the default (blank), unless you have a very compelling reason to do so (like licensing issues, where a license is bound to a MAC address, which cannot be the case here).&nbsp;Best case scenario is that it just doesn't make a difference, and that Windows will ignore the invalid formatted MAC address, and just default to whatever is default. If not, well, I don't know which problems could arise from having an IP address for a MAC address. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp;No need to reboot after installing the loopback adapter either (if you don't change the MAC address) - should work out of the box.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Miwer, post: 931283, member: 132832"] Well, I know this is an old thread, but that just makes it more of a mystery to me, that no one have caught this: [B]You do NOT want to put the IP address of your loopback adapter in the "Network Address" edit box in the device properties.[/B] "Network Address" here means MAC address, and you should not need to alter it from the default (blank), unless you have a very compelling reason to do so (like licensing issues, where a license is bound to a MAC address, which cannot be the case here). Best case scenario is that it just doesn't make a difference, and that Windows will ignore the invalid formatted MAC address, and just default to whatever is default. If not, well, I don't know which problems could arise from having an IP address for a MAC address. ;) No need to reboot after installing the loopback adapter either (if you don't change the MAC address) - should work out of the box. [/QUOTE]

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