On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:16:02PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Perhaps RTN_BROADCAST should take precedence over IFF_NOARP
> (but not IFF_LOOPBACK)?  I'm talking about the code in
> net/ipv4/arp.c that causes this behavior.

Sure, I don't see any harm in that.

However, I'm curious as to the purpose of all this.  What application
is there for sending broadcasts through a dummy device with the
Ethernet broadcast address?

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