Make sure you have loopbackmedium in your kernel, e.g., link ... ethermedium loopbackmedium ... Then just use ipconfig to set it up: % ip/ipconfig loopback /dev/null 127.1 The /dev/null is not meaningful, it's ignored, ipconfig just needed a positional parameter there. Anything sent to 127.1 will loop back at the bottom of the stack. Is that what you wanted?