Actually, any important site has some kind of failover in place, and they
could very well be using this feature to provide seamless MAC/IP takeover
in the case of a server outtage.
This feature also allows bridging to work, and anyone with root priviledges
can send any ethernet packet they want using a raw packet socket anyway.
Ben
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