From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu 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 Message-ID: <20060526004324.GA762@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20060523.165343.104035136.davem@davemloft.net> <20060525.151602.102574435.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: akpm@osdl.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:16906 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965222AbWEZAoZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 20:44:25 -0400 To: David Miller Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060525.151602.102574435.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt