On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:12:22PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > >If I do a bridge between xl0 and xl1, can the IP address > >configured on xl1 answer ARP-requests that come from the > >LAN the xl0 is connected ? Does this make sense ? > > Yes, it should. Bridging basicly treats xl0 and xl1 as being on the same > physical network and an ARP request for an IP used by one of the two > interfaces should be answered regardless of where it came from. > One typically also sets net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0, to avoid annoying kernel messages in such a setup. (See the arp(4) manpage for details.)
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov FreeBSD committer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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