From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 11:02:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA15572 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:02:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA15567 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:02:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA19847; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:01:21 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199602151901.OAA19847@Glock.COM> Subject: Re: proxy ARP on ethernet?? To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:01:20 -0500 (EST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, kmitch@vt.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9602151854.AA12781@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Feb 15, 96 01:54:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > < said: > > You should be able to set it up so that you only have to use different > > *IP addresses* on each interface. > No you should not be able to do so. It might be possible, but only > because of insufficient error checking in the kernel. Proxy arping with packet forwarding having two interfaces on the same subnet is not supposed to be a valid option? I've know a lot of people to do this when the provider has hubs that only allow one mac address per port... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/