Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:50:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: pete@silver.sms.fi (Petri Helenius) Cc: julian@tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Routing nightmares. Message-ID: <9504182150.AA07415@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199504181935.WAA00615@silver.sms.fi> from "Petri Helenius" at Apr 18, 95 10:35:52 pm
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> This can be solved installing a subnetwork-route pointing to the freebsd-box's > interface. This is the correct way to do this. Whether your version of the > OS supports the route correctly (if there was a freebsd it would) is an issue > you should resolve with your OS supplier. This is the "correct" way to do it, agreed, but it is not supported by ANYBODY that I've seen - including FreeBSD - so it is also a useless way to do it. > > Actually, this was the "solution". > > Proxy-arp should be still consireded as an interim-time solution, you wouldn't > want to get your arp-table too huge. The way our Corporate guys move, I don't necessarily consider it interim. The arp table has another 255 entries in it. It's a SPARCstation 2. It can just have to deal with it. :-) > > Getting the FreeBSD box to proxy ARP with two interfaces was a nightmarish > > mess and I sorta had it working, but it would eventually overwrite the > > information I was asking it to publish. It simply wasn't designed on a > > per-interface basis. > > IMO, unix is not an router and real routers don't run unix... Give me a real router for $200 and I'll happily install it here. :-) In the meantime, I am fortunate that I happen to have a sophisticated OS that implements TCP/IP so well. I can take hardware that is laying around and build a router, without paying Cisco several thousand more dollars (we already have Cisco routers, the Corporate guys are sitting on them, I got pissed after several months of no-progress, and I implemented something *today* that should have been done a year ago, and won't be done for several more months). UNIX is more of a router than a router is. I've never seen a router that can talk SMTP before. And I like to be able to log in and poke at things, something you can't do with cheap routers. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Software Engineer, UNIX/Network Hacker, Etc. 414/362-3617 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - R&D - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@mei.com
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