For example, it might look like 192. If your computer is connected via Ethernet, the connection will most likely be eth0. One of the tools available to computer security technicians is the port scanner, a program that searches your network for possible open port numbers that might give an outside hacker access to your business. It may also be labeled by the manufacturer of your network adapter. This address can be masked using. On Linux systems, the loopback interface is commonly called lo or lo0. When using the Tor Browser, your traffic is sent through different Tor server making it very difficult to trace your online activity. The corresponding hostname for this interface is called
localhost.