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Re: ethernet cards & promisc mode

From: R.Argentini () STUDENT TUDELFT NL (R. Argentini)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:43:33 +0200


At 10:29 AM 5/4/00 -0400, Spears, Joseph L. wrote:

It was my understanding that ethernet cards had to go into a type of
promisc. mode to do arp resolution... i mean, otherwise, you would have to
set jumpers for the IP/Appletalk/IPX addreses, right?


Hmm, no.
ARP requests are sent to the broadcast MAC (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) which are
received by the card/driver even when in non promiscuous mode.

Current thread:

Re: ethernet cards & promisc mode Spears, Joseph L. (May 04)
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- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: ethernet cards & promisc mode Spears, Joseph L. (May 04)
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- Re: ethernet cards & promisc mode Michael Wojcik (May 05)

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