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Re: [lwip-users] a question!?
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Sylvain Rochet |
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Re: [lwip-users] a question!? |
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Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:11:56 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:25:02PM -0400, Bill Auerbach wrote:
> Maybe because the protocol and type checks are 2 byte checks while the ip
> address and hwaddr checks total 10 bytes to check?
And maybe because ARP/IPv6/PPPoE are dealing with broadcast/multicast
addresses, so checking the address validity require knowing the protocol
used.
Maybe as well because I am too lazy to read the source code, I have no
doubt it is perfect on this point ;-)
Sylvain
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