At 11:45 30/09/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:23:46AM -0300, Rodrigo Ormonde wrote:
>>
>> Linux proxy-arp does not answers arp requests to the same interface the
>> request came from. That means that if the request for a published arp came
>> from eth0, Linux will not send the answer back to eth0, even if you
>> configured it to do so.
>>
>> I had this problem some months ago and, to solve it, I had to write my
>> own proy-arp daemon.
>Hi,
>
>Is there any way to create a "who has" arp request for testing purposes?
>E.G. send a packet to a broadcast address asking for a particular IP
>address? My problem is very similar to this one but I want the Linux box to
>answer requests on eth1 for a machine which is connected on eth0.
I think arping package can send arp requests for specific IPs. I don't
recall the URL, but I think it won't be difficult to find.
In your case, Linux should sucessfully do what you want, since it will be
proxying a host in other segment.
Best regards,
Rodrigo Ormonde
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