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Re: ppp server




On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Alex Shnitman wrote:

> Hi, guy keren!

hello, alex shnitman....

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 12:29:29AM +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?
are you trying to say that there is _no_ proxy arp support on current
linux distributions? that's quite unbeleiveable....

i'm also not sure what does proxy arp got to do with the kernel - the
kernel does not need to do anything in order to support proxy arp. an
external application simply needs to inject another IP address into its
arp table for it to respond to. remmeber that without proxy arp, no
'virtual interfaces' support would be possible, and i haven't seen that
they stoopped working - have they?

anyway, the man page of pppd still mentions 'proxyarp'. also, taking
knowledge from development kernels and applying it to 'stable' kernels
isn't a very wise thing to do. 

guy

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