From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 18:13:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA04987 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 18:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from coal.nis.newscorp.com (mxa.newscorp.com [206.15.105.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA04847 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 18:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@multivac.narcissus.net) Received: from multivac.narcissus.net (ts1port12.port.net [207.38.248.12]) by coal.nis.newscorp.com (News Corp SMTP GW 1.1) with SMTP id VAA09848 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:12:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by multivac.narcissus.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00336; Wed, 29 Oct 97 21:03:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:03:15 -0400 (GMT-0400) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel modification In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, David E. Cross wrote: > The ether switches that we have here keep the orignial source frame. In > my understanding of the INTENT of MAC addresses, it would make more sense > for bridges, switches to keep the original source address, else it would > have to broadcast (or at least multicast) the responce on the other side > of the interface (how would it know which MAC address the packet wsa > 'really' destined for? The key word here is "source". > -- > David Cros > ACS Consultant Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."