Re: [Sheflug] Network configs

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> > I've only done this with SLIP/PPP connections before, so I'd be interested
> > to hear if it works.
>
>  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)?

That's the idea.  If they *think* it's on the same /24 (or whatever),
they'll try to find a MAC address using ARP.  The machine on .5 will say
"I've got it", and they'll send their packets to it, and it can do the
routing to the real machine :)

Cheers

Richard


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