[About external loopback via ethernet]
> Would it not be possible to make this behaviour config'able, so that the
> faster code-path is default, and you have to specifically choose to
> compile in the loopback behaviour?!
> This way, it won't lead to any overhead (apart from maybe a few hundred
> bytes...)
That messes up the code (#ifdef et al). Besides, somebody will have to look
after this. If the need is very specialized and nonstandard (like this
clearly is), nobody will, and it will succumb to bitrot in a couple of
weeks. But will mess up the normal code nonetheless for years to come.
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