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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: Setting mac address of loopback device
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:49:20 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:53:49AM -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> BTW, how to change route to redirect _local_ traffic (that is packets
> sending to itself) to a non-loopback device? I tried to modify local
> route table, but have no luck to make it working.

Have you seen the route_localnet sysctl? It should avoid the check for
loopback addresses when building outgoing route.

Greetings,

  Hannes