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From: dab@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Re:  Proxy ARP (was Re: Dumb vs. smart host routing)
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Date: 17 May 88 16:25:15 GMT
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	Actually, there was one other factor that caused proxy-ARP to lose
in that case.  This was the use of a default route in the other gateway.
It didn't actually know a route to this test subnet I was setting up, it
just thought it did (via its default route).  So after proxy-ARPing the
address I was trying to get to, it forwarded the packet off to the ARPA
gateway (its default route), which forwarded the packet off to some random
core gateway (its default route) which hopefully dropped it before it
became an alligator in Dave Mill's swap.
						David Bridgham