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From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: will PCroute do this for me?
Summary: Use Proxy ARP
Keywords: PCroute, Transparent subnetting
Message-ID: <231@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 89 10:26:14 GMT
References: <479@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>
Organization: Balliffe International, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 24

In article <479@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>, randy@oetl.Scf.Lockheed.Com wrote:
>Question 1: How do I (or can I) configure PCroute to pass
>	     packets to the different subnets transparently?
>	     I would like this to look like a single network.
>	     I'm not running routed on any of my machines.

You can do that by enabling Proxy ARP on the Ethernet interface
of each of the PC routers.

>Question 2: Do I have to tell all of the hosts that they are
>	     subnetting, or will PCroute deal with all of that?

Proxy ARP would hide the subnetting details from all the hosts.

>Question 3: Presuming that there is an answer to Question 1,
>	     What should I expect when I `ping' snowyA from oetl1?
>	     What should I expect when I `ping' snowyG from oetl1?

Both ping's would work, and the ping which has to go over the SLIP
line will take a bit longer.

...Sam
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Samuel Lam   <skl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> or {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca!skl