On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 01:49:43AM -0400, Curt Sampson wrote:
> 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.

Somebody: please create a package out of the swedish proxy arp d.
	-is