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From: richier@imag.UUCP (Jean-Luc Richier)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  gateways and more-than-one-IP-net on one ethernet
Message-ID: <8807010739.AA10331@imag.imag.fr>
Date: 1 Jul 88 07:39:04 GMT
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In your mail
   "Re:  gateways and more-than-one-IP-net on one ethernet" dated 30 Jun,
you say :
/*
 * 
 * Get rid of the Level 2 Bridge(s).  Put IP routers in their place.
 * Don't have two networks on the same LAN.  I define LAN as a network
 * of hosts all sharing the same network address.
 * 
 * phil wood (cpw@lanl.gov)
 * 
*/
I agree with. I do not like this construction. However I a not the
administrator of this structure, and I have to live with it. I cannot
modify the basic concept: 2 LAN linked by a level bridge (When I look to
"classical" networks in France, I must be grateful to have at least a
TCP/IP LAN, and not the "good" solutions such as DECNET or SNA)
Therefore I must survive, and all I can obtain is to put software on some
of the machines of the LAN.
A good solution would be a a kernel patch to allow adding routes in the
kernel according interface and not proxy-arp deaIP addresses, or a proxy
arp daemon, to fake route protocols

Do you know of such solution. I know that somebody (Barry Shein at Boston
University) has written a proxy arp deamon for sun, but I have been unable
to contact him. Do you have seen any such software on some site??

Thank 
   Richier

richeir@imag.UUCP      richier@imag.fr

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