Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:06:12 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documenting sysctls (was: Re: kernfs/procfs questions...) Message-ID: <9806051706.ZM27358@beatrice.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "Documenting sysctls (was: Re: kernfs/procfs questions...)" (Jun 5, 3:37pm) References: <199806050005.TAA00859@dyson.iquest.net> <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> <9806051228.ZM15866@beatrice.rutgers.edu> <199806051937.PAA08895@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Jun 5, 3:37pm, Garrett Wollman (possibly) wrote: > <<On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:28:11 -0400, "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> said: > > > Umm... while everyone's talking about documenting sysctls, would > > somebody mind explaining exactly what proxyall does? From reading over > > the source code, I _think_ that this is what happens, but I'm not sure: > > Let me explain what it was originally written for. > > Three years ago, my then-employers wanted to separate our > videoconferencing network off from the main production network (mostly > so that the Suns on the video net couldn't sniff passwords on the > other side). At the same time, we wanted to play around with a > cable-modem network that MIT cable was testing out. Since subnets on > net 18 are hard to come by, we decided the best thing to do was to > re-subnet our existing /16. Of course, it would have been too much of > a pain to change over all the old machines, so the proxy ARP hack was > born. It was only about five minutes of coding. OK... but documentation as to what it does would still be nice, as per the thing (L2-filtering-bridging) that I mentioned. Does it indeed do what I thought it does? Thanks, -Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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