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From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:06:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "Documenting sysctls (was: Re: kernfs/procfs questions...)" (Jun  5,  3:37pm)
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On Jun 5,  3:37pm, Garrett Wollman (possibly) wrote:
> <<On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:28:11 -0400, "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> said:
> 
> > Umm... while everyone's talking about documenting sysctls, would
> > somebody mind explaining exactly what proxyall does? From reading over
> > the source code, I _think_ that this is what happens, but I'm not sure:
> 
> Let me explain what it was originally written for.
> 
> Three years ago, my then-employers wanted to separate our
> videoconferencing network off from the main production network (mostly
> so that the Suns on the video net couldn't sniff passwords on the
> other side).  At the same time, we wanted to play around with a
> cable-modem network that MIT cable was testing out.  Since subnets on
> net 18 are hard to come by, we decided the best thing to do was to
> re-subnet our existing /16.  Of course, it would have been too much of
> a pain to change over all the old machines, so the proxy ARP hack was
> born.  It was only about five minutes of coding.

OK... but documentation as to what it does would still be nice, as per
the thing (L2-filtering-bridging) that I mentioned. Does it indeed do
what I thought it does?

	Thanks,

	-Allen


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