Re: Bridging over IP

From: Rodrigo Paes (rpaes@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2006 - 15:08:02 ART


On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:28:44 +0300
"Venkataramanaiah.R" <vramanaiah@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is like this..
>
> Host A - 1.1.1.1/24 ----- IP Cloud ---- Host B 1.1.1.2/24
>
> These hosts dont have capabilities to configure default gateway and
> both hosts can not have IP on different subnets. They have to be on
> same subnet.

you can use bridging on the router and a GRE tunnel, never tried it though, or if you really want something ugly, you can do nat on both sides and use proxy-arp ...urgh! makes me feel bad just saying it, I did something similar for a Ericsson HLR.. really awfull thing

[]s
rodrigo

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