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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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)
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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...