Re: Ethertap device in 2.3.40+ and 2.2.14

From: Guus Sliepen (guus@warande3094.warande.uu.nl)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 05:38:44 EST


On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > 23:40:58.077317 fe:fd:a:1:1:1 fe:fd:a:1:7:1 0800 98: 10.1.7.1 >

> The packet is not destined to this host.

> Previous kernels had bug in detection packets destined for other hosts
> and tinc worked only due to this bug.

I know the MAC addresses are switched, but even in promiscuous mode it
won't listen to them. I will fix the MAC address order, but shouldn't a
device in promisc. mode totally disregard the MAC address and look only at
the IP header?

Met vriendelijke groet,
Guus Sliepen.

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