Anand Kumria wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing a program which receives ARP packets and have noticed that
broadcast ARP packets seem to come in with the destination hardware
address set as all zeros.
long, Long, LONG ago, all-zeros was considered broadcast. however,
long, Long ago, that was switched to all-ones, but all-zeros was
"grandfathered" in this day and age (heck even a decade ago) it is my
understanding that nothing should be continuing to send broadcast as
all-zeros.
rickjones
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