Re: ethernet cards & promisc mode

[holger () VANKOLL DE (Holger van Koll)]

"Spears, Joseph L." wrote:
> It was my understanding that ethernet cards had to go into a type of
> promisc. mode to do arp resolution...

No, they just have to send a packet TO all hosts in the net,
they dont need to listen to all pakets as the response paket will be
sent
to the nic directly, not as a broadcast.

> i mean, otherwise, you would have to
> set jumpers for the IP/Appletalk/IPX addreses, right?

Those protocols dont have anything to do with Ethernet,
they are just software above the ethernet-driver.

You can f.e. also run IP over PPP, and PPP does not know any broadcasts.