netdev - IFF_NOARP behaviour

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Date:	Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:02:57 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: IFF_NOARP behaviour

Hi.

When I set IFF_NOARP on ordinary ethernet device and try for example
ping to some ip withing the configured network, I see that the frames
have the same dst MAC as src MAC (iface MAC). Is this correct?
Is this behaviour documented somewhere?

Thanks a lot.

Jiri
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