On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Darren Reed wrote:

> What I did want to do was configure an ethernet cable as a PPP device
> by virtue of it being a crossover cable to another device.

Ethernet is inherently a broadcast medium; configure the thing with
whatever netmask is appropriate, and add a route to the other
machine on that `network.'

> Also, does NetBSD do proxy-arp in the kernel ?

Yes, although you may be using a different meaning of proxy-arp.
You can configure NetBSD to arp for other devices by adding a "pub"
arp entry for that device. If you want it to act as a pseudo-bridge,
however, it doesn't do that at the moment.

cjs
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