go to the Internet by through a plip link?

[Darren Pilgrim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Franz Klaus
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 2:15 AM
> To: blacksir at number.ru
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: go to the Internet by through a plip link?
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> >From: "Alexander Vasenin aka BlackSir" <blacksir at number.ru>
> >To: "Franz Klaus" <klaus_franz at hotmail.com>
> >Subject: RE: go to the Internet by through a plip link?
> >Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:54:46 +0400
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> >There is a sysctl key 'net.link.ether.inet.proxyall' which control 
> ARP-proxying. However I've never used PLIP, and so I don't know
> >how to get PLIP work. Seem like your method #2 is bridging, 
> but for what 
> ARP-proxying in bridging?
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> I guess that is not bridging and I think I'm not supposed to read the 
> bridging chapter of handbook. It's not bridging because PLIP is not 
> ethernet (has no MAC address), the 'oldbook' host has default 
> gateway set 
> to the other end, this envolve routing, not just bridging. At 
> least that's 
> what I can understand.

How about using an alias address on ed1 and natd's redirect_address
functionality?