Hi,

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:48:33PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > Not necessarily - if the receiving end is in promiscuous mode, the
> > ethernet chip will happily accept whatever packets come in...
> 
> of course - but where's the point when you still have to create the same
> header format that the receiving driver expects?

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...

gert

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