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Re: Proxy ARP, strange ideas.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernd Eckenfels)
Wed Feb 14 09:12:11 1996

To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: 	13 Feb 1996 23:44:20 GMT

Christer Weinigel (wingel@hog.rydnet.lysator.liu.se) wrote:
> $ arp -i eth0 -s hostname hardware-address-of-eth0 pub

> Because if that's the case, why not write a new utility
> `proxy-arp-for' which takes only one argument, a hostname?

I will modify arp, that it is possible to give the name of a device instead
of the hardware address.

arp -i eth0 -s hostname eth0 pub

(i dont think there are devices named after hardwareaddresses :)

Greetings
Bernd
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