Hi,

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:25:02PM -0400, Bill Auerbach wrote:
> Maybe because the protocol and type checks are 2 byte checks while the ip
> address and hwaddr checks total 10 bytes to check?

And maybe because ARP/IPv6/PPPoE are dealing with broadcast/multicast 
addresses, so checking the address validity require knowing the protocol 
used.

Maybe as well because I am too lazy to read the source code, I have no 
doubt it is perfect on this point ;-)

Sylvain

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