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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: Proxy ARP (was Re: Dumb vs. smart host routing)
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Date: 20 May 88 12:39:11 GMT
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In article <882@kaos.UUCP> romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey) writes:
>
>Bill,
>
>I hate to do this, but I don't like proxy ARP at all.
...
>First, there are too many network media that don't use ARP for my
>taste. ARPANET, X.25, ProNET-10. Maybe FDDI won't? 
I suppose I should give Phil Karn a chance to say this first, but
AMPRnet (Amateur Packet Radio, network 44) generally won't - hidden
terminal problems and unreliable broadcast performance make it impractical.

Unfortunately, ARP has become too popular, so that people almost always think
of trying to use it to help with routing.
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					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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