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Re: Getting slip(4) to work beyond two machines



On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:41:05AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2020-03-11 00:37, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > In addition to other advice: Don't use addresses that belong on an
> > ethernet on a slip link.   Pick a new subnet, and set up real routes,
> > not proxy arp.
> 
> Actually, that would be the very best advice, I'd say. Don't try and do a
> complicated solution when there is a perfectly good simple one, which fits
> in to how IP is supposed to work.

Exept you can't always setup a proper routing.
I use proxy arp and it works fine in most cases.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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