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by signa11 3085 days ago
> You can do physical loopback by connecting the two ports together.

this ! and this is waay better, because you can run all simulations (perf etc.) whatever on the same machine. for example, you can run client on 1 cpu-core, and server on another, and have packets looped over the physical interface.

simplify man simplify :)