From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 01:59:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 01:59:35 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([212.227.14.2]:22110 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 01:59:22 -0500 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: net/ipv4/arp.c: arp_rcv, rfc2131 BREAKS communication In-Reply-To: <20011125181921.A16765@panama> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.11-xfs (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:59:20 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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