Re: Sending ARP request to unicast MAC instead of broadcast MAC address?

2010-06-17 Thread Crist Clark
On 6/16/2010 at 3:57 PM, Chris Woodfield rek...@semihuman.com wrote: OK, this sounds Really Wacky (or, Really Hacky if you're into puns) but there's a reason for it, I swear... Will typical OSS UNIX kernels (Linux, BSD, MacOS X, etc) reply to a crafted ARP request that, instead of having

Re: Sending ARP request to unicast MAC instead of broadcast MAC address?

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Woodfield
Looks like all the replies I got were private, so thanks all - to summarize, I got everything from Read The Fine Kernel Source to Read The Fine RFC to Read RFC 1122, Section 2.3.2.1, it's quite a Fine read. So for other folks out there like me who obviously can't read RFCs, the answer is yes.

Sending ARP request to unicast MAC instead of broadcast MAC address?

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Woodfield
OK, this sounds Really Wacky (or, Really Hacky if you're into puns) but there's a reason for it, I swear... Will typical OSS UNIX kernels (Linux, BSD, MacOS X, etc) reply to a crafted ARP request that, instead of having FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF as its destination MAC address, is instead sent to the

Re: Sending ARP request to unicast MAC instead of broadcast MAC address?

2010-06-16 Thread James Hess
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Chris Woodfield rek...@semihuman.com wrote: OK, this sounds Really Wacky (or, Really Hacky if you're into puns) but there's a reason for it, I swear... Will typical OSS UNIX kernels (Linux, BSD, MacOS X, etc) reply to a crafted ARP request that, instead of

Re: Sending ARP request to unicast MAC instead of broadcast MAC address?

2010-06-16 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Chris, OK, this sounds Really Wacky (or, Really Hacky if you're into puns) but there's a reason for it, I swear... Will typical OSS UNIX kernels (Linux, BSD, MacOS X, etc) reply to a crafted ARP request that, instead of having FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF as its destination MAC address, is