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by bombcar 1132 days ago
What would use 1.04e+12 ports? Each IP has about 65k ports IIRC and 127/8 is 16m addresses.
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I select one 127/16 network for all my addresses - a vendor namespace. Each service can have worker processes, they get 127/24 networks.
SELinux reserves them for unknown reasons. For all addresses.