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Comment by kazen44

this works nicely in IPV6, where true seperation of layer 2 and layer 3 exist. This does not exist in practice in ethernet, because ARP is required as a mechanism to learn MAC IP bindings and is dependant on IP AND Ethernet.

IPv6 solves this by doing neighbour discovery on link local addresses and multicast addresses.

parent kazen44 2 months ago

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