> On May 18, 2019, at 2:39 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 18, 2019, 4:06 AM Owen DeLong <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You’ll also have to rewrite the linux kernel which treats all of 127.0.0.0/8 
> <http://127.0.0.0/8> as quasi-automatically configured on interface lo.
> 
> Yes, things like that are what's implied under "a substantial number of 
> patches". But this particular one is probably the simplest case. OTOH 
> embedded junk can be tricky in that regard.
> 
> --
> Töma

Yes and no… It’s simple until you think about the number of implementations in 
the wild that are actually making use of this “feature” in production for a 
variety fo interesting cases.

Owen

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