Arp problem

[William Stearns]

Good day, Jeff, Chris, and all,

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Chris Brenton wrote:

> Jeff Odegard wrote:
> > I can make it work using ip aliasing on eth0, but that would require me
> > to set up an alias for each masqueraded IP and that seems like a kludge.
> > I also looked into proxy_arp, but couldn't get it to work.
> 
> I know you said you tried it, but did you use the format:
> arp -i eth0 -s virtual_ip_addr eth0_hw_addr pub
> 
> I tried it on a box here and it will respond to the ARP request.

	I've written a document describing the process in some detail with
a few examples and horrendous ascii-art :-).  It's at:

ftp://mason.stearns.org/pub/doc/proxyarp-howto

	Cheers,
	- Bill

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