[Nottingham] NIC MACs aliases & IP aliases

Graeme Fowler graeme at graemef.net
Wed May 27 11:03:41 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 11:48 +0100, Martin wrote:
> I'm thinking that I shouldn't be using proxy_arp (and ip_forwarding) to 
> be able to have all this to work as intended...

Er... quite. Proxy ARP makes the MAC address of a given device be "the
one true ARP" for all devices that can see it, so might usurp your
bridged addresses.

> Is there a "arp & ping response" utility that I can attach to a tap to try?

arping :)




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