On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:56:49PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> 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...

of course - but where's the point when you still have to create the same
header format that the receiving driver expects?

	-is