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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>
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Subject: Re: arp info overwritten 
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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