Both later 2.0 and all 2.2 handle this correctly and do checking in software
for PROMISC devices. It was a bug.
That isnt a catchall however. It is legal to have a single MAC per machine
with multiple interfaces (eg some Sun systems). This does wonderful
wonderful things to switches 8)
Alan
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