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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:04:41 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Iasen Kostoff <tbyte@tbyte.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding a route to host via interface
Message-ID:  <20010703150441.B39090@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107031424440.35452-100000@shadow.otel.net>; from tbyte@tbyte.org on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:30:48PM %2B0300
References:  <20010703105649.A6517@sunbay.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107031424440.35452-100000@shadow.otel.net>

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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:30:48PM +0300, Iasen Kostoff wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:40:07PM +0300, Iasen Kostoff wrote:
> > > 
> > > 	Problem is that adding a route to host throw interface adds
> > > inerface as gateway (iface's lladdr). And you should manualy change lladdr
> > > of this route to the real lladdr.
> > > 
> > > this is it:
> > > 
> > > route add -host foo -iface bar
> > > arp -s foo real_lladdr_of_foo
> > > 
> > > Is that realy a problem or I'm missing something ?
> > > 
> > Try this:
> > 
> > route add -host foo -link bar:real_lladdr_of_foo -llinfo -interface
> > 
> But if I don't know the lladdr - because now I should use tcpsump(1) with
> -i iface -e to see the lladdr of the client and when they change their GW
> computer or its Lan card I should do that again (and if am not around they
> don't have inet ofcourse) but if they are connected on cisco router that
> do not hapen because I'm not routing to lladdr but throw iface.
> 
> Can that be fixed some how ?
> 
I apparently lost the context here.  What are you trying to do?
You want the host ``foo'' to be resolved through ARP?  If that
is the case, this is somewhat tricky, but still possible:

route add foo/32 -iface bar -cloning


Cheers,
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