From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 10 7:34:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFF037B404 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mandarin.fruitsalad.org (pc117.net160.koping.net [81.16.160.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32AC643EA9 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mdouhan@fruitsalad.org) Received: from [192.168.15.240] (helo=192.168.15.240) by mandarin.fruitsalad.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17zeOa-0003zH-00; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:34:36 +0200 From: Matt Douhan To: thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org Subject: Re: Setup routing entry for host with a non-local IP address Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:33:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.7 References: <20021009151733.GA15162@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <3DA49D72.6070205@potentialtech.com> <20021010080037.GA40420@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20021010080037.GA40420@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200210101633.55537.mdouhan@fruitsalad.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Depending on the FBSD implementation of proxy ARP what you should be able t= o=20 do is the follwing add a static host route to Host B with the next hop being HOST B itself now what will happen is that as long as an host with the same IP does not=20 already exist on the real 10.10.0.x network the BSD machine _may_ answer on= =20 behalf of HOST B and as such IP communications will be established without= =20 further problems This is commonly used in large networks with old legacy equipment that have= =20 IP's hardcoded in its apps. /// Matt On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:00, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2002-10-09, Bill Moran =E9crivait : > > Is it feasible to add an alias on xl0 that is in the 10.10.0.x network > > space? That sounds like the easiest way to handle the issue to me. > > No, hostA already has another interface on the 'real' 10.10.0.x network. =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D---------- Matt Douhan www.fruitsalad.org CCIE #4004 *** ping elvis *** *** elvis is alive *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message