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Re: Proxy ARP, strange ideas.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernd Eckenfels)
Wed Feb 14 09:20:03 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: 13 Feb 1996 23:46:06 GMT
Mark W. Eichin (eichin@mit.edu) wrote:
> Err, no. I also use proxy arp to get a slip server to "bridge" my home
> net to my office net, since the slip server isn't quite configurable
> enough to do the right thing, I just have a nearby machine arp all of
> my home machines to the slip server's ethernet address. (It does the
> right thing once the packets show up :-)
JFI: This functionality is something i have used quite often. The problem is,
that with recent kernels it isnt possible (without changing the route tables
before the entrie is set, and restoring the route afterwards).
Greetings
Bernd
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