Loopback under physical interface ?

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Please explain in detail about the loopback under an interface..what purpose does it solve after setting it ? I have highlighted it below.

R1#sh int s1/1
Serial1/1 is administratively down, line protocol is down
  Hardware is M4T
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1544 Kbit/sec, DLY 20000 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation HDLC, crc 16, loopback not set 

Thanks in advance. 


 

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It is used to perform loopback diagnostic on serial interfaces in case of ATM.

As we are not using this technology anymore you need not worry about this.