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.
Have a nice fortnight
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