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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:51:37 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bernd.luevelsmeyer@heitec.net>
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Subject: Re: arp proxy
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:49:12PM +0200, Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I need to set up an "arp proxy"; at least I think that's what I need.
> The situation is: I've got a combined gateway/firewall machine (FreeBSD
> 4.1-Stable), but my provider declares himself unable to direct my
> subnet's traffic to that gateway. Instead, he insists on addressing each
> of my machines directly, with individual ARPs for each address. So I
> think my gateway machine needs to answer all the ARP requests for my
> subnet with its own MAC address, and then forward the IP packets it
> receives.

man 4 bridge

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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