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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 6610] New: dummy interface broadcast destination hardware address is not ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:53:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060523.165343.104035136.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060523163142.4149e06f.akpm@osdl.org>

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:31:42 -0700

> >            Summary: dummy interface broadcast destination hardware address
> >                     is not ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Very strange because the dummy device driver calls
ether_setup() which does:

	memset(dev->broadcast,0xFF, ETH_ALEN);

Probably tcpdump does not understand the link type, but that
also doesn't make sense since clearly the ifconfig output shows
"Ethernet" as the link encapsulation type.

Stumped...


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-23 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200605232316.k4NNGRBp001431@fire-2.osdl.org>
2006-05-23 23:31 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 6610] New: dummy interface broadcast destination hardware address is not ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Andrew Morton
2006-05-23 23:53   ` David Miller [this message]
2006-05-24  1:10     ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-25 22:16       ` David Miller
2006-05-26  0:43         ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-26  1:18           ` David Miller

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