Hi, guy keren!
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:02:50AM +0200, you wrote the following:
> > > your problem might be that you did not specify the 'proxy arp' option when
> > > starting the ppp daemon on the linux server.
> >
> > As far as I remember from the last 2.1.x days, proxyarp was removed
> > from the kernel, because the developers thought it'd be better
> > implemented in a userspace daemon, which at the time hadn't yet been
> > written. I remember that it stayed that way for a long time. I don't
> > know what's the situation now, maybe proxyarp has been added back, or
> > maybe the userspace daemon has been written, but in any case, it's
> > worth checking.
>
> now, what are we talking about exactly? are you trying to help or to
> confuse? what should the _original_ poster do after reading your letter?
Sorry, perhaps I should have been more specific. To answer your
question, no, I'm not trying to confuse.
> are you trying to say that there is _no_ proxy arp support on current
> linux distributions? that's quite unbeleiveable....
I did better research this time. What I said is true, except that it's
support for proxy-arping whole *subnets* that had been removed.
Proxy-arping for single hosts is not affected, as you wrote.
The starting message of the thread I was talking about is
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu/msg41889.html .
It talks about the 2.2.0 kernel. I mentioned the 2.1 kernel above
because it's during its development that this change was implemtned.
Obviously the 2.1 kernel became 2.2 afterwards.
So, to the original poster: this kernel change doesn't affect you, and
I hope this sub-thread didn't confuse you too much.
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