When you add the device "Microsoft Loopback Adapter" via that add/remove hardware wizard, you get another Local Area Connection named "Local Area Connection 2" that's attached to this adapter.

I tried setting it to a fixed address on the same subnet as the Empeg, but I still can't ping the Empeg's fixed IP address from my computer. Maybe the loopback adapter isn't meant for this kind of behavior.

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Tony Fabris