Re: Clarifications with RFC 3077
Dr G Fairhurst <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:55:29 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.udlr |
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| Organization | ERG, Aberdeen, UK |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The arp protocol uses the information in the arp packet payload. Hence if the systems using arp know the source hardware address (in this case of the sender on the UDLR link, wouldn't this work? What about IPv6 autoconfiguration? Gorry Lloyd Wood wrote: > > On 5 Nov 2002, Emmanuel Duros wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 23:44, Lloyd Wood wrote: > > > On 4 Nov 2002, Emmanuel Duros wrote: > > > > > > > More precisely, it is the MPE header that does not contain the source > > > > MAC address (!). Note that, in general, the MAC source address contained > > > > in a layer 2 frame header is not use by layer 2 protocols... > > > > > > bridging? > > > > Sure. > > arp? > > L. > > sppofing and adjacency checks are useful things to have. > > <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><[email protected]>