Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:10:31 -0400 (EDT) | | From | William Stearns <> | | Subject | Re: ARP |
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Good afternoon, Chris,
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> I want to use FreeS/WAN with kernel 2.4. For the configuration I have to > reach with FreeS/WAN I need the ability to tell a host that it shall > accept traffic which is directed to another host. I tried doing that by > the user space program arp, but it did not work and after that I read in > the manual page of arp that since kernel version 2.2.0 setting an arp > entry for a whole subnet is no longer supported. > > Is there something else I can do to tell the hosts in a subnet to send > packets for a specific not to that host itself but to another host? This > should be done transparently so that the hosts do not know that their ip > packets do not go directly to the destination.
Proxy arp _does_ work, to the est of my knowledge, still. You may need to put in the entries for each workstation, that that's a simple shell loop in your network startup.
http://www.stearns.org/doc/proxyarp-howto
Please trim the to list on any replies. Cheers, - Bill
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