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From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE + PLIP = problem
Date: 24 Mar 1997 14:09:17 GMT
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Brian Somers (brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org) wrote:
: In the current environment, hey must be ARPing and failing, all the way up
: until the laptop sends something.  Then they see that the MAC address to
: use is the routers.
All right, I just got an advice to use ARP proxy. It looks like "arp -s
<laptop IP> <gateway ether> pub" at the gateway fixed the problem.