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		jeannot12 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do we need MAC addresses? The fact the wrong ethertype is used in the packet at the beginning (0x88dd, IPv6 instead of 0x0800 for IPv4) made me think of an AI generated article too.

userbinator 7 months ago [–]

It is consistent with the rest of the fields for IPv6, but normally one would write IPv6 explicitly, and implicitly IP to mean IPv4.

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