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>> what i did expect, however, was that the kernel would not let you add
>> an arp entry for an ip address which was not "local" to one of the
>> interfaces.  this is not so?
>
>That would probably break proxy-arp...

netbsd, as i understand it, doesn't do proxy arp without the help of a
small daemon, somewhat like rarpd.

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