Hello!

> Unfortunately, this does not work with the Linux stack, because the
> 127 net is treated (for good reasons I suppose) as a special net.

Is it really?

I've just tried

        ip addr del 127.0.0.1/8 dev lo
        ip addr add 127.0.0.1/24 dev lo

and `ping 127.1.2.3' is then happily sent along the default route.

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