On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:29, Paul Durrant wrote: > On 3/20/06, Thomas Bastian - Sun Microsystems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just checked the DLPI spec for this topic. There is no requirement that > > a DLPI user gets its own packets looped back. So I guess we can safely > > treat this proposal as a bug. I will file a bug instead. > > I think the behaviour was adopted from GLD. You may want to check with > David Butterfield to see if he can remember any reason why the packets > get looped back. You mean GLDv2? I will check with David on this one. > It may have only been for consistency; e.g. a token-ring interface in > promiscuous mode will always receive its own packets off the wire so > one has to jump through a few hoops *not* to loop packets back. > You may also want to check whether there are 3rd party applications > out there that expect to get their own packets in promiscuous mode. That will be an impossible task I am affraid :-( This is why in the first place I thought adding a new functionality to the stack instead of treating this as a bug. It is always easier to leave the world as it is, and add a new tweak for the ones who need change. It is not necessarly a beautiful approach but it saves a lot of headaches.
Thanks, -Thomas > > -- > Paul Durrant > http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
