From: Higgins, Andrew (Andrew.Higgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Jun 19 1999 - 23:30:53 GMT-3
Not necessarily. For proxy-arp to work, a device needs to arp on the local
subnet with a destination address that is not part of the local subnet. I
have seen proxy-arp used at a client site where several Unix workstations
had the incorrect subnet mask configured and they were sending arps on the
local subnet for devices that were actually on remote subnets. The router
recognized the arps were for remote subnets and replied to the workstations
with its own mac address, then passed to data along to the remote device.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: jbxu [mailto:jbxu@www3.cea.online.sh.cn]
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 10:13 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: proxy-arp
question:
I think "proxy-arp" is to help pc with no knowledge of routing
to determine the media address of pc on other networks.I know the proxy
arp on the cisco router is enabled by default.
Is this mean I can ping a pc on another network from my pc without
defult-gateway.
anyone have the experience to use the proxy-arp?
thanks in advance
jbxu
jbxu@mail.cea.online.sh.cn
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