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plip
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (NIIBE Yutaka)
Sat Feb 11 02:09:43 1995
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 15:04:05 +0900
From: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@mri.co.jp>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0rd1Nj-0004gWC@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca>
John Paul Morrison writes:
> Is there a reason for plip_rebuild_header()? Why not use the defaults,
> this would actualy make the code smaller.
However, using default means that it send arp packets. Once, I thought
that this arp is useless because PLIP is point-to-point, but I know
that there is such a DOS application which cares about the HW address.
Let me think a while...
--
NIIBE Yutaka
