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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is llinfo?
Date: 23 Dec 1996 21:04:00 GMT
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marc@cayman.priconet.de (Marc Zimmermann) wrote:

> These message usually document FreeBSD's inability to add a host route
> to  a  system  on  the  same  ethernet with  an   IP num  from another
> subnet. I.e. FreeBSD won't ARP for  that IP-Num, even when explicitely
> told to do so.

It will only do so if its own ethernet interface has an alias address
in the foreign net.  I think this makes sense, since ARP replies are
IMHO by definition sent into the same net.

My knowledge about all this is limited, it's better to discuss this
with Bill Fenner.

-- 
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. ;-)