In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206271618550.7731-100000@havoc.ittc.ku.edu> you wrote: >> Do you use the same hardwire src MAC and dst MAC in V1 and V2 or is V2 >> the mirror of V1 ? > I think you misunderstood my problem. I stated that V1 and V2 donot > generate ARP (NOARP flag is set). Instead they use eth0 to xmit their > packets. So the ethernet header carries the source and destination mac > addresses of machines 1 and 2 rather than V1 & V2. ... > From V1, packet has src mac addr m/c 1, dst mac addr m/c 2 > From V2, packet has src mac addr m/c 2, dst mac addr m/c 1 I thought u just saied u generate them by eth0, why should they have 2 different MACs? Have you hardwired the source mac and are you sure that the computer actually send them that way? > BTW, for this experiment, I only have unidirectional UDP traffic. So I > dont expect any packets back on the reverse path. Not that it should > really matter, should it? Sure it should. How should the switch learn it if it does not receive packets? Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
