Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Ether types...
Message-ID: <1988Aug9.174451.2045@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <88Aug7.130257hst.4295@dorsai.ics.hawaii.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 88 17:44:51 GMT

In article <88Aug7.130257hst.4295@dorsai.ics.hawaii.edu> torben@DORSAI.ICS.HAWAII.EDU ("Torben N. Nielsen") writes:
>Anyone happen to know if there're legitimate reasons for sending to yourself
>onan Ethernet? That is, Ethernet packets where the source and the destination
>address are identical? Seems pointless since as far as I know, you cannot read
>packets you yourself transmitted off of the wire..... Am I wrong?

Whether you can hear yourself send is very much dependent on your Ethernet
controller.  Some can, some can't.
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