From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net/ipv4/arp.c: arp_rcv, rfc2131 BREAKS communication
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:59:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E168Fjc-0008H6-00@calista.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011125181921.A16765@panama>
In article <20011125181921.A16765@panama> you wrote:
> Shows a pseudo-code that indicates a check should
> be performed to see if THA is "ours" and if not, discard the packet
Ethernet cards are dropping other addresses, but if it is in promisc mode it
may catch some miss addressed. Therefore Linux Kernel is checking all
incoming frames and mark them OTHERHOST. This means they can travel up the
packet capture sockets, but are never handed to application tcp/udp sockets.
Greetings
Bernd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-26 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-25 12:10 Julian Anastasov
2001-11-26 2:19 ` pjordan
2001-11-26 3:23 ` pjordan
2001-11-26 6:59 ` Bernd Eckenfels [this message]
2001-11-26 11:12 ` Julian Anastasov
2001-11-29 19:11 ` kuznet
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2001-11-24 21:56 pjordan
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