Old article I found in my bookmarks. Although I didn’t have the use for it, I thought it was interesting.

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    52 months ago

    In case if you e.g. have eth0 and eth1 and neither is guaranteed to be up. It’s more of a router setup, though (Cisco routers are well-known to use the loopback interface like this).