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On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 11:44 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>  
> > Anyway, back to figuring out arp. UGH!
> 
> As a rule, an Ethernet driver needn't worry about ARP by itself
> because ARP has own separate module in the network stack.  Does
> your driver have a partucular reason to?

Apart from using fake MAC addresses, I don't think so.

-A.