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Date:      Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:04:15 +0000
From:      Samuel S Thomas <sthomas@lart.net>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/7191
Message-ID:  <19980707140415.C1918@lart.net>
In-Reply-To: <199807071352.GAA24068@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 06:52:07AM -0700
References:  <19980707122225.C13836@lart.net> <199807071352.GAA24068@implode.root.com>

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On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 06:52:07AM -0700, David Greenman wrote:
> >please re-open this, as you have not investigated the matter in the
> >slightest, and seem to have false conceptions as to the real problem. I
> >have sent data clearly definig the problem, which should hopefully
> >clearly explain the situation to you.
> 
>    The "rainer" machine's interface appears to either be in promiscuous mode
> or perhaps might be defective. Based on your packet dumps, rainer shouldn't
> be seeing the packets since they are not broadcasts and the destination
> address is not that machine. What type of network interface is in rainer?

rainier has a 3Com 3c589c ethernet card. it is running PAO-980430.
rfc1122 still states that a host must determine if it is the destination
of a packet before further processing of such packet. even if it was
promiscuous, this should be caught long before a reply is generated.
This would break networks where, for instance, a FreeBSD box was acting
as a DHCP server.

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