Hi there,

>You are my hero, man! Send me your picture. I'll put it 
>on the altar next to my other "guru's".
>

heheheh :-)

>
>Anyway, you surely earned the $20. I'll send it and 
>gladly. Here is why:
>
>The "kzo" stands for Kalamazoo, MI, USA (where I am 
>today). The "ah" stands for Auburn Hills, MI, USA (where 
>I must be tomorrow). Now I can take the AH box with me 
>and set it up, saving a trip. It is normally a 5-hour 
>round trip. I hate driving anytime. (The motorcycle is 
>wintering in the garage.) And tonight a mini blizzard is 
>due in.
>
>So... Shoot me your address, man. I insist, really. I'll 
>find some way to sneek $20 into my expense report, 
>mileage or something...
>

    Just don't worry. First because I'm just a student, not a unix 
specialist/consultant yet, and we're on this mailing to offer/ask for 
free support (you may consider this support a kind of "we know it's not 
easy, so we'll give you some tips. But RTFM anyway :D") from 
enthusiastic people who believe that software is much more than people 
usually think. If this was not true, there would be no free and great 
software like NetBSD.
    Also, I'm much more than 5 hours away from there, and those things 
would be complicated,  so don't worry. I'm just happy as you and your 
company are netbsd users. :D

>
>Those two things together were it. I was for some reason 
>stating the IP numbers backwards on at least half of my 
>tries. And the "proxyarp" did not occur to me.
>
>I will FULLY document this set up for my HOW-TO page.
>

    Well, as you see it was a simple issue. It's good to have a mailing 
list to ask for support because you can rely on other people experience. 
Also, they may need yours too. When I was stuck with a server which dns 
server was not up (I thought it was a problem with network card/cfg or 
with the switches), I would never think about DNS 'cause it used a 
telco's DNS (supposed to be stable), I got an answer in about 10 
seconds. I really don't believe I could have such a ready and precise 
answer from a tech support :D

    []'s
    Ricardo.