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Does your wireless infrastructure have multicast-to-unicast or some such feature turned on? If enabled, this usually applies to all group traffic, which would be multicast and broadcast. So broadcast would be sent directly to your host via the 802.11 unicast mechanism, which has your MAC address as the destination at Layer2. You might not see other hosts ARP because some wifi systems learn MAC and IP addresses of clients, and will then filter appropriately.