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Re: route to/from xover box



Sorry i didn't send my anser to the maillist but i suggested to use proxyarp
with ip_forwarding and made a small example. ( i think its the fasted way to
solve this problem.

Greatings,
  Robbert Helling

Citeren Tarragon Allen <melange@n12turbo.com>:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:04 am, Mark Constable wrote:
> > Not strictly Debian related but the boxes in question are deb powered.
> > I have just been given a /28 (16 node) subnet and until I get a switch
> > in place I have a short xover eth cable between two boxes. I thought I
> > could get away with a couple of static routes in the mean time but the
> > upstream default gateway on the first box keeps arping for the IP on
> > the 2nd box... subnet is x.x.x.144/28 ...
> >
> >  x.x.x.145 <-> eth0:x.x.x.146 eth1:x.x.x.147 <-xover-> eth0:x.x.x.158
> >
> > Any suggestions as to how x.x.x.158 can see the outside world ?
> 
> Well, the gateway is ARPing for x.158 because it thinks it's on the same 
> network, which it isn't. Three suggestions :
> 
> 1) reconfigure the gateway with a static route to x.158 through x.147.
> 
> 2) configure ethernet bridging on x.147 through to x.158.
> 
> 3) use a different subnet for the x.158 box. Of course this will require the
> 
> gateway to be reconfigured as well. Depending on what the x.158 machine needs
> 
> to do, it might be easier to give it a private IP address and NAT it through
> 
> the x.147 machine instead.
> 
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