From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:27:27 -0400 > And Linux continues to do this in spite of the fact that virtually all > other operating systems don't have this bug. The RFCs specifically allow this addressing model as a valid one. Claiming it as a bug is quite foolhardy. In fact, this behavior increases the likelyhood of successful communications between two nodes even in the presence of misconfiguration and various forms of topology changes that interface based address ownership simply cannot handle. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
