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From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bernd.luevelsmeyer@heitec.net>
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Crist J . Clark wrote:
> 
> 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

I know how to configure a bridge; in fact, the machine is currently
running as a bridge, exactly because I couldn't get the arp proxy to
run. I think I mentioned that in my original mail:
"Right now I've configured the gateway as a bridge, and that works; but
I don't like that. So, how do I set up an ARP proxy correctly?"

Hence, I don't desperately need something right now to get the network
running, the bridge is operating just fine. I would however like to
replace the bridge with an ARP proxy, so I'm interested if FreeBSD is
able to work as an ARP proxy at all, and if it is: how. Just enabling
'arpproxy_all' in /etc/rc.conf definitly isn't enough.

Thanks,
	Bernd


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