I understand loopback device acts like a mirror interface to my localhost.
When I do ifconfig
on my Ubuntu machine, I get this
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:5253062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5253062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1202256159 (1.2 GB) TX bytes:1202256159 (1.2 GB)
See the RX bytes
and TX bytes
. From this, am I supposed to assume that my internet traffic is passed through lo
if I am using a proxy in my browser?