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Developing over SSH

With the previous part’s VM still running, let’s try connecting to our machine over SSH.

Network addresses, loopback and IP nets

Normally, to connect to a machine, you’d find its IP address. On Linux, a decade ago, you would’ve used ifconfig. Nowadays you can use ip addr:

The ip addr command output, run in VirtualBox

The loopback interface (lo) is local, so it’s not useful to reach the box from the outside: you can see it can be accessed over IPv4 at address 127.0.0.1 but not just! What we’re reading here is 127.0.0.1/8, which corresponds to the range 127.0.0.1 - 127.255.255.255

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