Subject: Re: a stupid question about ethernet addresses
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/09/2006 07:58:41
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:27:57PM +0200, Konstantin KABASSANOV wrote:

> I understand (I hope ;)) your viewpoint, but I'm not sure that it is norm=
al
> to accept packets with the same "unicast" source and destination Ethernet
> addresses... Multicast and broadcast Ethernet traffic is not part of our
> discussion...

Sure it is. Some Ethernet hardware don't provide a copy of their sent packet
to the reception hardware, and rely on the receiver to pick it up from the
cable in case it's needed for monitoring (we're talking about 10base-5/2
here).

	-is
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