Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:02:31 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Cannon <tcannon@noops.org> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Clark Mankin <cmankin@harbornet.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD network hired guns? Message-ID: <20020117155808.X97701-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> In-Reply-To: <20020117235441.7F4833E50@i8k.babbleon.org>
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> > gateway of 0.0.0.0 and unfortunately BSD is completely unwilling to accept > > Your gateway is 0.0.0.0 ? That's . . . um . . . rather unconventional, isn't > it? I thought that was a reserved (illegal) IP address. In fact, I'm really > pretty sure that it is. Does Linux really accept a 0.0.0.0 address? Nah, that's plenty legal. It just means that the whole internet is on the local LAN. If you have a router running proxy arp, when that machine tries to connect to the outside world, it'll arp for the MAC thinking the remote machine is local, the router will answer for it, and route the traffic. Useful if you have more than one router and don't want to configure a default route in case that router dies. It's been replaced by better stuff, like HSRP, FSRP, VRRP, and the like ... but yes, it is legal. But it's also not what he's trying to do, either. And I certainly wouldn't encourage anyone else to, either ;-) thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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