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In a mobile network, a switch's loopback address is a configured logical address not associated with a physical interface. It's useful for routing as it's always up and operational unless otherwise manually brought down. Whereas a physical ip address can lose routing if the interface goes down or if it's handling significant amounts of traffic.

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=the purpose of having loopback address to testing tcp/ip protocol implementation on ahost without even connected to nic(network interface card)=

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Loop back address In IPv4 is 127.0.0.0 .

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