[Tut]Setting Up the Microsoft Loopback Adapter [Vista] [Updated] - Innovative

[Innovative]

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Setting Up the Microsft Loopback Adapter!

This guide will help you set up the Loopback Adapter which will allow both you and your players to connect. Installing this should also allow you to connect to your website via your WAN IP.
This guide was made with Windows Vista Home Premium.
-Step One- Go to your "Control Panel".
Go to "Hardware and Sound" and in the "Search" box type in "Add Hardware".


Under "Device Manager" you should see "Install drivers for older devices with Add Hardware wizard", press this.




-Step Two- Press "Next" and select the option "Install the hardware I manually select from a list" and press "Next".


Scroll down to "Network Adpaters" and select it and press "Next"


Under the "Manufacturer" column select "Microsoft" and under the "Network Adapter" column select "Microsoft Loopback Adapter" and press "Next" and "Next" once more to start installing.




-Step Three- Go to your Start Menu and type in "cmd" in the search function and press enter.
A black box should have appeared, in this black box type in "ipconfig" and press enter.
Note down the figures and values that should have appeared in the black box and close it. If you have many different sections of information, just copy the information from the section "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection"




-Step Four- Go back to your "Control Panel" and select "Network and Internet".
Now select "Network and Sharing Center" and on the left select "Manage Network Connections".




-Step Five- You should see your newly made connection, to confirm this hover over the new connection and it should say "Microsoft Loopback Adapter".
Right click your new connection and select "Properties".


Select "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" and press "Properties".


In the "General" tab select the radio button "Use the following IP address:"


In the IP address box, type in your "WAN IP" and fill out the rest of the information, leaving the "DNS" section blank.
Press Ok and you should be done!


Enjoy!

[MentaL]

[Xivilization]

I posted a tutorial on this 0.o.. And I asked permission .. 0.o.. :P.. But anyways, urs is better.. Only cuz yoiu have images!! :(

[xshinobii]

Thanks for this turtorial but I get a quite big problem,
where you said:
"In the IP address box, type in your "WAN IP""
So I did.
When i runned my server it let me connect to it :) but...
Then moments later i just restarted my pc cuz i was lagging a lil...
then my wan ip changed. So i tried connecting to my server and it refused. Then i chanegd my microsoft looopback adaptor wan ip to my new wan ip and it works again. I get like a new wan ip every 2 hours and Does this mean i have to re-type my wan-ip everytime it changes?

Please tell me how i can fix this plz
:eek:

[thatruth305]

Innovative is the man when it comes to guides.. thanks again

[Innovative]

Thanks for this turtorial but I get a quite big problem,
where you said:
"In the IP address box, type in your "WAN IP""
So I did.
When i runned my server it let me connect to it :) but...
Then moments later i just restarted my pc cuz i was lagging a lil...
then my wan ip changed. So i tried connecting to my server and it refused. Then i chanegd my microsoft looopback adaptor wan ip to my new wan ip and it works again. I get like a new wan ip every 2 hours and Does this mean i have to re-type my wan-ip everytime it changes?

Please tell me how i can fix this plz
:eek:

Means your have a dynamic IP

[tgf914520]

THANK YOU ,after i done all the step u did , then what? thats all o_O?
how can i make a register page ? plz help

[Innovative]

@tgf914520 Read the guide "Setting Up Registrations"

[CarterFTWWW]

Wow . You fuckign own man.

[Loserr]

Do you know how to turn the DHCP on, on the new loopback adapter network?

[zarcorp]

i need some help, i have to open existing network and the new one i created, or i have to disable the existing one and eneble the new one to have only one network ?????? also , when it says ip addres and u say add wan ip not ur ip adress, not the ip that shows ipconfig, just the wan one ??? S:

[LmntofWar]

please help i keep getting this no matter what i try... any ideas whats wrong?

[Zaki]

please help i keep getting this no matter what i try... any ideas whats wrong?

just click ok and it'll be fine, it's because you put your wanip instead of it's own ip address(i think, im not sure)

[resinate]

its cuz he didnt explain what the 192.168.11.1

this tut DOES NOT WORK ON VISTA HOME PC

[DisMyStory]

its cuz he didnt explain what the 192.168.11.1

this tut DOES NOT WORK ON VISTA HOME PC

Gratz! You just bumped a 1 year old thread.
And It works on vista home pc.
I would know I tryed.

[lostyms]

OMG!! THANKS A LOT! Seriously, my players could get inside but i couldnt.. i saw that threat's link on another threat, i tried this one,and it actually worked!!! that made my day! nono,that made my year lol! thanks extremely much lol!