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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:26:19 +0200 (EET)
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: arp info overwritten 
Message-ID:  <199611142226.AAA15291@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.961114235105.27274R-100000@silmu.cc.jyu.fi>
References:  <199611142100.XAA13454@silver.sms.fi> <Pine.NEB.3.92.961114235105.27274R-100000@silmu.cc.jyu.fi>

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Seppo Kallio writes:
 > 
 > Maybe I have missunderstood. As I say I am not network expert and I am not
 > managing the Net, just the FreeBSD nodes.

Yea, so don't argue with a networking expert, please :-)
 > 
 > I think this classless net is just what you describe, we have it, masks
 > vary etc. This is not one guy invention here. We do networking here with
 > Funet organization. And net people do things after talking first with
 > Funet's people.
 >
Dream on :-)

 > >  > I think proxy arping is in use.
 > >  >
 > > Which in some cases saves you, but causes other side-effects for
 > > misconfigured machines.
 > 
 > They are not misconfigured. Mask is 255.255.0.0 and it is correct so I am
 > told.
 > 
I don't want to waste the bandwidth of this list any longer on
this. Your mask is incorrect in all likelyhood. Please have the
responsible net manager to contact me off-band so this can be
resolved and you get a functional network.

Pete



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