> What surprises me is that TCP local loopback is
> available *at all* using the NetBEUI (or, more accurately, Named Pipes) protocol,
> since Named Pipes is not TCP/IP and is not meant to know about TCP Local
> loopback.

As far as I know windows allows IP-addresses (including local-loopback) as aliasses for hosts in the named-pipes protocol.

Mark
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