Re: [Sheflug] Network configs

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Richard Stevenson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> > Richard Stevenson wrote:
> > >
> > > Yuk... ugly.  How about proxy-arp?  Never set it up on Linux, only a BSD,
> > > though, so I'm not much help there.
> >
> >  That'll do nicely, Richard, I'm going to be using OpenBSD on one or two
> > of the new (5 year old :-) machines I'm getting.
> 
> OK, I should really refer to your original diagram, but it appears you set
> it up with the arp command...  on the system that 192.168.0.7 is going to
> be hiding behind, you need the MAC address of 192.168.0.5...
> 
> arp -s 192.168.0.7 <mac-address-of-192.168.0.5> pub
> 
> and set the routing table on 192.168.0.[5/6] so that *it* knows which
> interface to use to get to .7.  The arp command tells the system to create
> an ARP table entry for that machine and publish it so the other machines
> on your LAN can see it.
> 
> I've only done this with SLIP/PPP connections before, so I'd be interested
> to hear if it works.

That sounds like a challenge :-)

 So basically, as long as the gateway/bridge machine knows about both
networks, it can publish the info to interested machines (i.e. the rest
of my existing network)?

Baz.
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