Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:53:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tarkhil@mgt.msk.ru, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fxp' driver/hardware lossage (was Re: Alexander B. Povol's mail) Message-ID: <199709270253.TAA02076@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709270110.SAA01062@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Sep 26, 97 06:10:48 pm
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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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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