From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 13 00:28:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01624 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01619 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA00176; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:27:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Danny Braniss cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PROXY ARP In-Reply-To: <199708121623.TAA17934@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'll let you in on another little secret too, rarpd under freebsd (which uses bpf {oddly?}) does not work half the time, sometimes it must be restarted to get it to answer rarp requests, I also have two interfaces and only one little machine requiring a rarp server on my network -- but even that is a thorough pain (I'll be replacing it with a freebsd machine soon) On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Danny Braniss wrote: > From: Danny Braniss > > hello all, > I guess this is more a Net/3 item but ... > > I'm trying to set up a host with 2 NICS, and want it to act as > a proxy arp gateway/router (I think the term is L2-Bridging?). > > Looking at the kernel sources, i see that FreeBsd has fix so > as not to send ARP Reply to the 'wrong' interface, but there are, > IMHO, some other problems. > > Since im not sure this is the correct forum, if someone out > there is willing to hear me out, i'll be much oblidged. > > danny > > -- > Daniel Braniss e-mail: danny@cs.huji.ac.il > Institute of Computer Science phone: +972 2 658 4385 > The Hebrew University Fax: +972 2 561 7723 > Jerusalem, Israel >