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From: marc@cayman.priconet.de (Marc Zimmermann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: route add xxx: kernel panic
Date: 9 Jan 1997 00:08:14 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
> This has been fixed, either intentionally, or as a side-effect from
> some other routing code change:
.
.
.
> (No crash.)

Hmm, I also have   seen a system, which  did  not crash. But  I really
cannot say what kind (OSType, HW) it was.

>>I can't believe it's plain impossible...

> It seems it is.  ARP is IMHO defined to happen on the local (sub)net,
> nowhere else.

Yeah, I would  agree with you  here, even though  I am not sure  about
this. Sounds reasonable, at least.

>  You can use alias IP addresses if you need to address
> more than a single subnet.

Unfortunately,  this is not applicable  in  this environment :-( Every
single IP  num  costs me  money. (It's   my private  connection,   not
commercial. We have very good  conditions, but only  as long as we use
exactly one IP num))

(Right  now, I   am using  another IP num   (one  which  is officially
assigned) and  filter  it. Although it  hurts nobody,  it's just plain
ugly :-(

>  That's what they are for (their abuse as
> `virtual hosting' is only a modern artifact arising from Webland's
> requirements).

;-)

I noted   before (whether this    may seem appropriate  or not),  that
SunOS5, Irix 6 and  Linux are able of  ARPing  here.  I wonder how  to
bribe the  folks in FreeBSD-land to implement  this. ;-) It would take
me time (dunno how  much, though) to do it  myself, but maybe  someone
else  would like to have  this, too. Again, I  cannot believe I am the
only one with this config?

Cheers,
--
 
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