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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: 'fxp' driver/hardware lossage (was Re: Alexander B. Povol's mail)
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> >If this works, then a timer set to bogusly send a packet to ourselves
> >would not bother anyone else on the network who wasn't in promiscuous
> >mode and running a network monitor, and it would be filterable there.
> 
>    You can't send a packet to yourself under normal circumstances (ethernet
> is a simplex device).

I meant "send it addressed to my own address"... from what you say,
though, the "ping soloutoin" probably is just a conicidence, so it's
a non-starter.  8-(.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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