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At 11:58 AM 3/2/2002 -0800, erich@uruk.org wrote:

>I would think that making the IP stack, for each MAC/interface path
>on reception, just check against the exact expected input address,
>would actually be a performance improvement on machines with multiple
>NICs.

Two words: Broadcast addresses.


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