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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE + PLIP = problem
Date: 25 Mar 1997 09:49:58 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5h61ud$jl9@hecate.umd.edu>,
marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) writes:
> 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.
IMHO, the setup is still wrong. If you use a different subnet, you
don't need specific knowledge about the routers MAC address.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !