jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu writes:

> In message <87u096liq4.fsf@phi.internal.fnop.net>Rui Paulo writes
>
>>"Konstantin KABASSANOV" <Konstantin.Kabassanov@lip6.fr> writes:
>>
>>> If there is a packet with the same source and destination mac address
>>> (typically a packet wrongly sent over an interface different from the
>>> loopback), what could be the right behaviour of the kernel? Is the packet
>>> treated twice (no way to make difference between incoming and outgoing
>>> direction)?
>>
>>If I understad you correctly you are asking what should a system do if
>>it recives a packet with the same src and dst MAC address ?
>>Then I guess, it should be dropped.
>
> Rui,
>
> I can't see any reason why such packets should be dropped, given that
> the local host decided to emit them?.

I didn't understand that they were emitted by the local host. My
mistake.

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  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>