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Cc: Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net
Subject: Re: em(4): sending ARP regardless of NOARP flag
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Jack Vogel wrote:
> I don't see how arping or not can be a driver problem, the driver just sends
> packets queued by the stack, there exists NO mechanism to communicate
> that kind of thing down into the driver, -arp is something that must be
> negotiated in the stack somewhere, as for it working with broadcom...
> <shrugs>
> 

except for the system management stuff.