Re: ARP

[William Stearns]

Good afternoon, Chris,

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Christoph Pleger wrote:

> I want to use FreeS/WAN with kernel 2.4. For the configuration I have to
> reach with FreeS/WAN I need the ability to tell a host that it shall
> accept traffic which is directed to another host. I tried doing that by
> the user space program arp, but it did not work and after that I read in
> the manual page of arp that since kernel version 2.2.0 setting an arp
> entry for a whole subnet is no longer supported. 
> 
> Is there something else I can do to tell the hosts in a subnet to send
> packets for a specific not to that host itself but to another host? This
> should be done transparently so that the hosts do not know that their ip
> packets do not go directly to the destination.

	Proxy arp _does_ work, to the est of my knowledge, still.  You may 
need to put in the entries for each workstation, that that's a simple 
shell loop in your network startup.

http://www.stearns.org/doc/proxyarp-howto

	Please trim the to list on any replies.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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