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Cannot loop traffic to internal real network interface - not using loopback

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### Basic Infos

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- [X] If there is a stack dump, I have decoded it.
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#### Platform

- Hardware: [ESP-12]
- Core Version: 3.1.2
- Development Env: [Platformio]
- Operating System: [Windows]

### Settings in IDE

- Module: [Generic ESP8266 Module|]
- Flash Mode: [qio]
- Flash Size: [4MB]
- lwip Variant: [v2 Lower Memory]
- Reset Method: [ck|nodemcu]
- Flash Frequency: [40Mhz]
- CPU Frequency: [80Mhz|]
- Upload Using: [SERIAL]
- Upload Speed: [115200

### Problem Description

it it previously indicated that local loopback interface 127.0.0.1 is not available in lwip2 and advised against trying to use.
as documented in https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/6437
previous case suggests to use the local available real interface instead of 127.0.0.1 as loopback.
however as seen below, traffic routed to the local UDP socket is not received by the stack.

the UDP client listens to external traffic and sees traffic coming from netcat on another computer.
but not from internal stack

### [MCVE](https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve) Sketch
```cpp
#include
#include
#include

#define WIFI_SSID "xxxxxx"
#define WIFI_PASSWORD "yyyyy"
#define SYSLOG_SERVER "lmSyslog.local"
#define SYSLOG_PORT 514

WiFiUDP udpServer, udpClient;
unsigned int received_bytes = 0;

void setup()
{
WiFi.begin(WIFI_SSID, WIFI_PASSWORD);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED)
{
delay(500);
}
digitalWrite(LED_PIN, HIGH);

Serial.begin(9600, SERIAL_8N1);
udpServer.begin(SYSLOG_PORT);
delay(100);
};

// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
void loop()
{
Serial.print("Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 ");
delay(100);
udpClient.beginPacket(WiFi.localIP(), SYSLOG_PORT);
udpClient.write("Hello, world");
udpClient.endPacket();
delay(100);
received_bytes = udpServer.parsePacket();
Serial.printf("Relay loop on %s, UDP queue size %d \n", WiFi.localIP().toString().c_str(), received_bytes);
for (int i = 0; i < received_bytes; i++)
{
char c = udpServer.read();
Serial.printf("%c", c);
}

delay(1000);
};
```
### Debug Messages

```

ing to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 17
UDP test message
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
Sending to loopback server on local interface not loopback 127.0.0.1 Relay loop on 192.168.0.171, UDP queue size 0
```

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