Re: Bridge+firewall - possible?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:30:49 -0500 (EST)

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Lauri Tischler wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > I'm probably gonna go with this, I didn't know that proxy ARP would work
> > like 'arp -s 0.0.0.0 00:00:00:00:00:00 netmask 0.0.0.0 pub' and handle
> > everything magically.

> Ungghh.. 8) What does that actually do ?

According to a net.rumor that was found in the DejaNews archives,
post-1.3 Linux kernels can do smart proxy ARP, which is [supposedly]
enabled by the above line. By smart proxy ARP I mean that it will
figure how "who goes where" based on routing tables.

Jeff

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