Subject: Re: Adding [published] ARP entries for a subnet?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/25/1996 09:12:23
Hi,

Jonathan Stone wrote:
>
>I'm wondering about adding the ability to do proxy-arp for an entire
>subnet. [...]
>
Good idea -- especially for a dialin server. Sometimes you can't get there
with routing (too many old and dumb machines on the LAN...).

>NB: Linux supports this already.
>
Now _that_ is a compelling technical argument.  ;-)

(No Linux/BSD flames please; I'm using Linux myself. So there.)

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