[c-nsp] security

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:02:56AM -0500, Adam Greene wrote:
> How does one get around the side-effect of not allowing broadcasts; i.e. 
> wouldn't this break ARP functionality?

This has no effect on things that happen *inside* the network - it will
just stop converting "IP broadcast -> link level broadcast" for packets
coming from the outside.

ARP is not crossing the router - so: no problem there.

gert

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