Quaker Fang writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > IP gets the MAC address from ARP, not from WPA. If you can't > > broadcast, you're just dead in the water. > > > I mean the router's MAC address was got during the WPA negotiation phase > (of course, by ARP).
But somehow not by broadcasting (which you're suggesting is somehow broken)? And how does ARP know anything about the results of WPA negotiation? And what happens when the ARP entry ages away and we no longer can renew it because broadcast doesn't work? I'm a bit baffled. > Some community users have proved this when they use static IP. It seems a bit far-fetched to me that this configuration "works" without a single broadcast packet on the wire, but, regardless, I still maintain that if either broadcast or multicast are non-functional, then what you have is a link that cannot reasonably support IPv4 or IPv6 to any useful degree. Such a set-up is broken, and will misbehave in difficult-to-predict (and impossible-to-support) ways. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
