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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is llinfo? Date: 23 Dec 1996 21:04:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <59ms40$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <58qp71$1os@agate.berkeley.edu> <597l9h$o34@news.parc.xerox.com> <59jel5$2df@cayman.priconet.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33056 marc@cayman.priconet.de (Marc Zimmermann) wrote: > These message usually document FreeBSD's inability to add a host route > to a system on the same ethernet with an IP num from another > subnet. I.e. FreeBSD won't ARP for that IP-Num, even when explicitely > told to do so. It will only do so if its own ethernet interface has an alias address in the foreign net. I think this makes sense, since ARP replies are IMHO by definition sent into the same net. My knowledge about all this is limited, it's better to discuss this with Bill Fenner. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)