On Thu, 24 May 2001, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
> At 10:36 PM 5/23/01, Chuck Larrieu wrote:
>
> >A host through it's TCP stack does the XOR and determines that a host lies
> >on another network. The host therefore sends the packet to the device
> >indicated as its default gateway in its configuration. It sends an ARP
> >request for the MAC of the default gateway. Normal ARP?
>
> Normal ARP, yes. Isn't it an AND function, not XOR?
Both, actually. (my address XOR target address) AND mask is 0 if and
only if the target is directly reachable.
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