Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:13:23 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: my linux does not accept redirects |
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> The ARP protocol finds the physical address, the IEEE > station address of a particular host and talks to it using > that address. If the IP address is behind a router, then > the router answers the ARP request with its physical address.
Damn Cisco and their default proxy ARP settings...
While learning to use iproute2 I managed to set my local eth0 interface as the default route. Boy was I suprised to see the router's ARP reply for a network address far, far away!
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