Sending a packet with 127.0.0.2 source address

[Anatoly Muliarski]

Hi list,

I want a strange thing :)
I have a box with NATed eth0 interface. For some reason I need to send
packets from the box with source addresses from 127.0.0.0/8 net.
When I try ping -I 127.0.0.2 'somewhere' I get "sendmsg: Invalid argument".
But when I use: ifconfig lo:0 10.0.0.0/24 and ping -I 10.0.0.254
'somewhere' it works fine.
I understand that 127.0.0.0/8 is treated as a special net but is there
any way to send packets with source IP from this subnet?

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Best regards
Anatoly Muliarski
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