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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:06:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
To:        danny@cs.huji.ac.il, tom@sdf.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PROXY ARP
Message-ID:  <199708131706.KAA12621@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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>From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 22:27:48 1997
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 21:27:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: PROXY ARP
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Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> writes:

> The whole idea of bridging has some problems.  Route and/or switch
> instead.  

As Alex Trebek would say, "Can you be more specific?"  Do you mean
the code isn't really there in FreeBSD?  Or that ARP-level bridging
is inherently a bad idea?  If the latter, why?

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.



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