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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:51:28 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>
Cc:        "Marinos J . Yannikos" <mjy@pobox.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, nino@inode.at, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318) 
Message-ID:  <200006151951.MAA00547@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:40:26 MDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006151057170.66416-100000@rapidnet.com> 

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> >My ISP claims that the configuration above works trivially under
> >Linux and Windows NT,
> 
> 	I would like to see that.
> 
> 	Mr. Smith is correct.  Why not set your gateway as the next-hop
> 	address to your ISP upstream within the 195.58.183.77 network?
> 
> 	Another option would to run an IP tunnel between your network and
> 	the gateway using gif or nos-tun.
> 
> 	The whole question is, What are you trying to accomplish?

I spent some more time thinking about this, and I think the deal is that 
if you do this on both sides, you achieve the result where you can 
crosstalk between the two networks without requiring a gateway.

It's kinda ugly, but it's basically what route add -iface is there for, 
and it makes sense that if ARP is happy ARPing for these hosts, the route 
code should also consider these hosts as directly connected.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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