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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: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:16:02 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:10:54 +1000

> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > 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:
> 
> It's caused by the NO_ARP flag.

Perhaps RTN_BROADCAST should take precedence over IFF_NOARP
(but not IFF_LOOPBACK)?  I'm talking about the code in
net/ipv4/arp.c that causes this behavior.