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Re:History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses (2021) by p_l on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:03PM (#31513912)
Now consider that there are network components in the wild that have literal latch on first octet equaling 127 which triggers packet drop, and this proposal could drop hw acceleration for v4 too
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