How to add a loopback adapter in Windows Server 2008 Core
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- Category: Windows Server
- Written by Winfred de Kreij
How to add a loopback adapter to Windows 2008 server Core:
Find a 2003 server installation disk, x86 or x64 depending on the version you need and navigate to: \SUPPORT\TOOLS\SUPPORT.CAB and extract Devcon.exe.
For a 32 bit version you might be able to simply use the downloadable version of devcon, for 2008 x64, you definitely need to use devcon from support.cab on a 64 bit Windows 2003 server installation disk (I only tested this for the x64 version).
Then on the command line type:
C:\temp>devcon.exe install c:\windows\inf\netloop.inf *MSLOOP
If you did it right, you will see this:
Device node created. Install is complete when drivers are updated...
Updating drivers for *MSLOOP from c:\windows\inf\netloop.inf.
Drivers updated successfully.
And ipconfig /all will show this:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Loopback Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::590d:2eb0:55c9:3959%20(Preferred)
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.57.89(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
If you used the wrong version of devcon you will get the following error:
devcon.exe failed.