From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jiri@resnulli.us
Cc: stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com, edumazet@google.com,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pavlix@pavlix.net
Subject: Re: [RFC patch net-next] ipv4: use bcast as dst address in case IFF_NOARP is set
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:33:13 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130108.143313.1895311523435309641.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130108174538.GC1621@minipsycho.orion>
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:45:38 +0100
> I believe this may have been intentional, but what sense does it have to
> use dev_addr as destination address? That is what I do not understand.
It's the only address we know isn't someone else's and is not broadcast.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-08 13:02 [RFC patch net-next] ipv4: use bcast as dst address in case IFF_NOARP is set Jiri Pirko
2013-01-08 17:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-01-08 17:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2013-01-08 19:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-01-08 21:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-01-08 22:33 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-01-08 22:27 ` David Miller
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