Virtual network interface in Mac OS X

Question

I know that you can make a virtual network interface in Windows (see here), and in Linux it is also pretty easy with ip-aliases, but does something similar exist for Mac OS

Answer 1

if you are on a dev environment and want access some service already running on localhost/host machine. in docker for mac you have another option.use docker.for.mac.localhost instead of localhost in docker container. docker.for.mac.host.internal should be used instead of docker.for.mac.localhost from Docker Community Edition 17.12.0-ce-mac46 2018-01-09. this allows you to connect to service running on your on mac from within a docker container.please refer below links

understanding the docker.for.mac.localhost behavior

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