On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:12:33AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > I've written a patch to allow this behavior by adding a MAC address field to
> > struct pneigh_entry, but it's mostly untested and rather in-elegant. I needed
> > it to allow the sharing of a virtual MAC address between two different
> > machines, and I got it to the point where it correctly replies to the ARP
> > request and gives of the virtual MAC address. I'd would like to know however
> > if this is a legitimate thing to have in the official kernel..
>
> Current attitude is to do such proxy arp stuff in user mode. This includes
> proxy arp for foreign addresses and for subnets.
Actually such proxy ARP is done automatically when you have a route to the
other subnet on a different interface and IP forwarding and proxy arp
is turned on (see arp(7)) You only need to the user space daemon if you
want to proxy addresses on the same network.
-Andi
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