From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, 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: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:43:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060526004324.GA762@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060525.151602.102574435.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:16:02PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> 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.
Sure, I don't see any harm in that.
However, I'm curious as to the purpose of all this. What application
is there for sending broadcasts through a dummy device with the
Ethernet broadcast address?
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[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
2006-05-24 1:10 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-25 22:16 ` David Miller
2006-05-26 0:43 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2006-05-26 1:18 ` David Miller
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