Subject: Re: How to configure an ethernet interface which has point to point link
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/15/2007 22:02:02
Hi,

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:38:51PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > If it's a pure internal point-to-point link, you could save the effort of
> > maintaining ARP entries (either setting them up statically, or actually
> > running the ARP protocol).  Less overhead...
> 
> No. You still need to send something in the ethernet header, that will
> be properly received by the hardware engine on the other end.

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gert
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