RE: [Sheflug] Network configs

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

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.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 :)

 Clever stuff. Doesn't sound too hard (he says, jinxing all attempts to get it
to work ;-)
 I'll give it a go at some point.

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