In tech-net@netbsd.org Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:46:04AM -0700, mrchit_2000 wrote:
>> 
>> a static arp entry, but any other way? Anyway to tell the kernel just send
>> out the packet to the interface and the other end just pickup without
>> looking at the destination MAC address?

>This won't work. The other end's *hardware* needs an ethernet address to
>listen to.

Not necessarily - if the receiving end is in promiscuous mode, the
ethernet chip will happily accept whatever packets come in...

gert
-- 
gert@greenie.muc.de   fax: +49-89-35655025   http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/

The general prizes most the fortress which took the longest siege.
                                        -- Edward Garrett