Re: receiving ARP packets

2006-03-20 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi Rick, On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:27:07AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > Anand Kumria wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm writing a program which receives ARP packets and have noticed that > >broadcast ARP packets seem to come in with the destination hardware > >address set as all zeros. > > long, Long, LONG

Re: receiving ARP packets

2006-03-20 Thread Rick Jones
Anand Kumria wrote: Hi, I'm writing a program which receives ARP packets and have noticed that broadcast ARP packets seem to come in with the destination hardware address set as all zeros. long, Long, LONG ago, all-zeros was considered broadcast. however, long, Long ago, that was switched to

receiving ARP packets

2006-03-17 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi, I'm writing a program which receives ARP packets and have noticed that broadcast ARP packets seem to come in with the destination hardware address set as all zeros. Whereas tethereal indicates that the packet has a broadcast MAC address. My code: int arp_open(struct intf *intf) { int as;