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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:46:28 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proxy arp - what is it?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980622124448.28872S-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <01bd9d00$b3b9c8e0$b01a1acb@gretchen>

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proxy arp is when one computer answers arp (IP <-> Ethernet
Address) requests for another computer.

On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Looking through the man pages of the latest
> user-ppp I see something called "proxy arp".
> 
> Indeed I seem to have it working when 
> accepting dial ins, and now I can ftp
> to other machines on the LAN when
> dialed in from home.
> 
> This is good. But what is "proxy arp"?
> 
> Done some trolling but no luck so far.
> 
> Eddie.
> 
> 
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