netdev - Re: [RFC patch net-next] ipv4: use bcast as dst address in case IFF

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Message-Id: <20130108.143313.1895311523435309641.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:33:13 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pavlix@...lix.net
Subject: Re: [RFC patch net-next] ipv4: use bcast as dst address in case
 IFF_NOARP is set

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:45:38 +0100

> I believe this may have been intentional, but what sense does it have to
> use dev_addr as destination address? That is what I do not understand.

It's the only address we know isn't someone else's and is not broadcast.
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