From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 10:47:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12995 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12920 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA08755; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:46:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:46:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Eddie Irvine cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proxy arp - what is it? In-Reply-To: <01bd9d00$b3b9c8e0$b01a1acb@gretchen> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG proxy arp is when one computer answers arp (IP <-> Ethernet Address) requests for another computer. On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote: > Hi all, > > Looking through the man pages of the latest > user-ppp I see something called "proxy arp". > > Indeed I seem to have it working when > accepting dial ins, and now I can ftp > to other machines on the LAN when > dialed in from home. > > This is good. But what is "proxy arp"? > > Done some trolling but no luck so far. > > Eddie. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message