On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:02:02PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:38:51PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > If it's a pure internal point-to-point link, you could save the effort of
> > > maintaining ARP entries (either setting them up statically, or actually
> > > running the ARP protocol).  Less overhead...
> > 
> > No. You still need to send something in the ethernet header, that will
> > be properly received by the hardware engine on the other end.
> 
> "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"

Sure. This is close to getting an arp entry, though.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--