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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:40:11 -0400
From:      "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
To:        Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Snapshots
Message-ID:  <9907191940.ZM5053@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>      "Re: Snapshots" (Jul 19,  7:00pm)
References:  <199907192307.BAA16212@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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On Jul 19,  7:00pm, Oliver Fromme (possibly) wrote:
> Allen Smith wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
>  > Is choparp still functional? What are the symptoms of the proxy ARP
>  > breakage (just doesn't happen, or what)?
> 
> Uh...  I _really_ hope that choparp is still functional,
> since I heavily depend on it.

It should be; the problem is with arp -s. (I'd thought the problem was 
with arp_proxyall, which we're about to be heavily dependent upon...)

> I understand that choparp does not depend on the kernel's
> internal handling of ARP requests, but it rather does
> everything itself.  Is that correct?  In that case it should
> continue to work.  If choparp refuses to work, I'll be in
> serious trouble.

choparp uses a BPF interface to pick up and transmit its packets, so
you're right, it doesn't depend on the kernel's handling.

	-Allen

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Allen Smith				easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu
	


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