IP4 address conservation method
Mikael Abrahamsson
swmike at swm.pp.se
Wed Jun 5 16:57:51 UTC 2013
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, William Herrin wrote:
> Nothing. The problem is that the arp source IP doesn't fall within the
> interface netmask at the receiver. Some receivers ignore that... after
> all, why do they care what the source IP is? They only care about the
> source MAC. Other receivers see a spoofed packet and drop it.
Why wouldn't it be within the source IP mask? I would imagine
local-proxy-arp would work exactly the same way as if a directly connected
host with the IP the ARP request was for would have answered.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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