3. How to enable the loopback adapter on Windows 2008
This requires the following actions:
- Configure the loopback adapter with the virtual server IP address
- Disable the firewall on the Windows 2008 targets
- Set the name of the physical interface to “net” and the name of the loopback adapter to “loopback”
- Enter the following command line instructions (referencing the names “net” and “loopack”):
netsh interface ipv4 set interface "net" weakhostreceive=enabled
netsh interface ipv4 set interface "loopback" weakhostreceive=enabled
netsh interface ipv4 set interface "loopback" weakhostsend=enabled