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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE + PLIP = problem
Date: 26 Mar 1997 10:02:42 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5h8l6p$mpm@hecate.umd.edu>,
marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) writes:
> Brian Somers (brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org) wrote:
>: > All right, I just got an advice to use ARP proxy. It looks like "arp -s
>: > <laptop IP> <gateway ether> pub" at the gateway fixed the problem.
>: IMHO, the setup is still wrong. If you use a different subnet, you
>: don't need specific knowledge about the routers MAC address.
> Well, I don't use different subnet right now...Besides, even with a
> different subnet, I would probably still need to add a route to the router
> manually, and this is not desirable. The ARP proxy approach allows me to
> set the entire thing up only by configuring the laptop itself and the
> gateway machine.
Ah, this makes sense - I thought you were doing the arp on the router.
I guess I should have read your message :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !