yle=padding-bottom:70%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.14/blog/2022/merbridge/2.png title="Processing Outbound Traffic"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.14/blog/2022/merbridge/2.png alt="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;