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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: 25 Mar 1997 13:50:17 GMT
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Brian Somers (brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org) wrote:
: > 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.
Well, I don't use different subnet right now...Besides, even with a
different subnet, I would probably still need to add a route to the router
manually, and this is not desirable. The ARP proxy approach allows me to
set the entire thing up only by configuring the laptop itself and the
gateway machine.