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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pppd and routing?
Date: 1 Jan 1996 10:41:36 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jdeitch@jadpc.jd.com (Jim Deitch) writes:

> You may also want him to check out the proxyarp option also.

Proxyarp is a hack.  It might be useful sometimes (for example, to
wire a single PPP host into your officially routed LAN), but i would
not recommend it as a solution for an entire SLIP or PPP subnet.  In
this case, a separate (sub-)net seems more cleaner to me.

Note that proxyarp was known to be broken in 2.0.5's iijppp.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)