Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:59:22 +0200 | From | Christoph Pleger <> | Subject | Re: ARP |
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Hello William,
> 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
I did exactly what you described on your webpage (of course I changed the addresses), but the arp request of another host still is not answered by the FreeS/WAN gateway. Do I have to enable special kernel options for proxy arp to work?
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