Workaround for mpd5 and 8.0 broken proxy arp?

Boris Kochergin spawk at acm.poly.edu
Tue Mar 30 19:55:42 UTC 2010


Boris Kochergin wrote:
> J. English wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I've recently set up a FreeBSD 8.0 VPN server with mpd5 for people to
>> connect remotely.  However, looking at my mpd.log shows that I'm having
>> problems with proxy-arp:
>>     [B-1] IFACE: No interface to proxy arp on for 192.168.1.185
>>
>> In googling for solutions, I came across others who have posted to 
>> this list
>> who have had similar problems.  It also looks like a problem report 
>> has been
>> submitted for proxy arp being broken in 8.0 RELENG.
>>
>> My options are 1) to wait until proxy arp is fixed (don't know how 
>> long that
>> will take), or 2) go back and implement my VPN using 7.2 (would 
>> require a
>> lot of effort).  I was wondering if anyone else could suggest other
>> alternatives that would allow my external clients to access my intranet
>> without proxy arp.
>>   
> How about a userspace implementation of proxy ARP, like the one in the 
> choparp/pkg-descr port?
>
> -Boris
>
Oops. I meant the net-mgmt/choparp port.

-Boris


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