> 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.
Perhaps during WPA negotiation, the router happens to ARP for us and thus we preemptively create a cache entry for it. But that cache entry will of course time out and we'll eventually be dead. > > 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. Agreed. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
