Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 06:46:39 -0700 From: "Yi F. Liu" <yliu@usa.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Cisco Proxy Arp and FreeBSD Message-ID: <003f01bf22dd$31d5df80$0100a8c0@fst01.ucop.edu>
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We have a network with 2 Cisco routers that serves as internet gateways on the same ethernet network as our internet connected machines. Rather than fiddle with RIP on every NT machine (the NT machines will advertise routes even though they have ip forwarding disabled!), their default routes are set to their own IP address and will take advantage of the proxy arp on the cisco routers. This is preferable in some ways over RIP since the exit point for traffic is weighted depending on ASN for each router and the NT machines will use the more appropriate router depending on the traffic. Correct me if I'm wrong (perhaps an ARP cache expiry issue might interfere), but it would bypass an inaccessible router much quicker that RIP's convergence time. I would like to set this up on the FreeBSD boxes as well, rather than using RIP to default to one router and having to take the extra hop across the router when the exit traffic is destined out the non-default gateway. I've tried to set it's default route to its own IP address like the NT boxes, but this doesn't seem to work. Is there another method of doing this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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