Point-to-point /64

Benedikt Stockebrand bs at stepladder-it.com
Sun Jun 2 21:42:46 CEST 2013


Hi Gert and list,

Gert Doering <gert at space.net> writes:

> (Is there an implementation that can use an ethernet link as a true p2p
> medium without ND?

just for completeness sake: PPPoE?

> Could be made work by putting the receiving PHY into 
> promiscuous mode to receive "anything that comes in" and sending with a 
> fixed arbitrary MAC header...  OTOH it likely breaks a zillion specs...)

Using the Ethernet broadcast address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) as destination
should already do the trick, even without promiscuous mode.

Not that I'd necessarily consider it a good idea...


Cheers,

    Benedikt

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