From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Test for ethernet broadcast address?
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:03:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051110040311.GB15002@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511090244.52916.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:44:52AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> So. UML is not exact technically, but it's enough for our purposes. Don't know
> whether it may make sense to assign a multicast address to an iface, but I
> guess it's more complicate.
Yeah, I'm not totally correct on that, but I think that broadcast is a special
case of multicast, and you can't assign such a MAC to an interface.
Jeff
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2005-11-09 1:13 [uml-devel] Test for ethernet broadcast address? Rob Landley
2005-11-09 1:44 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-10 4:03 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
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