lt="Processing Outbound Traffic"></a></div><figcaption>Processing Outbound Traffic</figcaption></figure><p>Why do we set the destination address to <code>127.x.y.z</code> instead of <code>127.0.0.1</code>? When different pods exist, there might be conflicting quadruples, and this gracefully avoids conflict. (Pods&rsquo; IPs are different, and they will not be in the conflicting condition at any time.)</p><h3 id=inbound-traffic-processing>Inbound traffic processing</h3><p>The processing of inbound traffic is