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Date:      Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:47:37 +0100
From:      Walter Hop <freebsd@walter.transip.nl>
To:        Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: Connect two LANs over an IPv4 tunnel?
Message-ID:  <864138000.20031107194737@blue.calx.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200311061405.PAA15335@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
References:  <167116793500.20031106031202@blue.calx.nl> from Walter Hop at "Nov 6, 2003  3:12: 2 am" <200311061405.PAA15335@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>

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[in reply to helge.oldach@atosorigin.com, 6-11-2003]

>>I would like to connect two networks (home and work), so that I can set
>>up my home workstations in the same subnet as the work LAN. Out of this
>>/24, I would like to use a /29 at home.
>>
>>(attempt 2)
>>
>>The gif tunnel worked and the boxes can ping eachother over it, so I
>>assigned private addresses to the gif endpoints. Then I tried adding some
>>home IP aliases to the work box's ethernet interface and using forwarding
>>and "route delete/add" in the hope that packets would be routed to the
>>gateway in private-space across gif1.
>
> You do not need IP aliases (I presume you mean static ARP entries), but
> just need to get the routes right. Proxy ARP will do the rest for you:
>
> sysctl net.link.ether.inter.proxyall=1

Helge, I am eternally grateful. This simple sysctl made it all work. :)
Thank you!

cheers,
walter



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