Subject: Re: routing
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/10/1997 09:46:40
In article <Pine.SGI.3.95.970909230353.9444B-100000@bleu.west.spy.net>,
Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> writes:
> If you use a normal point to point mask (/30) ...
/30 is *not* point 2 point.
> ... then you're using four addresses that meet on the proper boundry.
He has only two address, and there are *not* in a /30 block. Oskar's
proxy arp hack might work but that is what I call bad network design.
> ... but I've never been able to get a Cisco to accept that for a netmask.
No, need to. Only add a host route to the ethernet.
> Anyway, proxy-arp does seem to be the answer.
It's a solution but a *really* *bad* one. I wonder how you can call my
solution bad network design and consider this one fine.
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