Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:03:15 -0400 (GMT-0400) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@multivac.narcissus.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel modification Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971029210218.330A-100000@multivac.narcissus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029174626.16229D-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
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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."
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