From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 08:00:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21294 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 08:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (news.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21283 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 08:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr) From: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP.9.9.9) with ESMTP id RAA09461; Mon, 11 May 1998 17:04:35 +0200 Received: from aifhs1.alcatel.fr (aifhs1.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.86]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA21482; Mon, 11 May 1998 16:54:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aifhs1.alcatel.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18472; Mon, 11 May 1998 16:58:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA19196; Mon, 11 May 1998 16:50:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07415; Mon, 11 May 1998 16:53:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05057; Mon, 11 May 98 16:43:37 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA153477624; Mon, 11 May 1998 16:40:24 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Mon, 11 May 98 16:40:14 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199805111408.HAA07452@implode.root.com> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9p_:_Re:_Proxy_ARP,_routing,_RFC1027_and_the_BSD_TCP/IP_s?= Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA21287 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks for the tip Why is this option not documented in the LINT kernel config file ? TfH ____________________________ Séparateur Réponse ________________________________ Objet : Rép : Re: Proxy ARP, routing, RFC1027 and the BSD TCP/IP s Auteur : dg@root.com Date : 11/05/98 16:08 > The RFC 1027 introduces the use of Proxy ARP to enable old machines > without subnetting to use routers (a router automatically answers the > ARP requests from the old machine for IP addresses outside the local > net). It seems CISCO routers implement the RFC (default behaviour). > > I would like to use a FreeBSD machine as such an "automated" Proxy ARP > to use it as a gateway for a machine with a *very* limited stack > (using the RTC real-time kernel). > > This RFC specifically mentions patches to the TCP/IP stack (for > BSD43). But the RFC is old (Oct . 87). I've attempted a quick search > on Internet, but without success. > > Has someone kept a copy of the indicated patches ? You should be able to get the behavior you're looking for in FreeBSD with the "ARP_PROXYALL" kernel option. I use it here myself on my gateway router. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message