[Techtalk] no gateway, yet it works!

[Meredydd Luff]

On Thursday 12 September 2002 12:12, Maria Blackmore wrote:
> if it doesn't have an entry for that then the answer is still quite
> simple, you're probably using proxy arp.  Whereby a router will give an
> ARP response pointing to itself for any IP address not on the local
> network, this means that all packets for the outside world get sent to it
> anyway.  This can cause a lot of problems on a large network because you
> end up with ARP tables filling up and things crashing because of that.

Ooh, never heard of that. Sounds like an interesting idea, although a 
DHCP-handed-out gateway seems like a better idea to me. Could you give a link 
for a bit more information (eg how to set a machine up to do it, if indeed it 
can be done without specialised hardware)?

Thanks,
Meredydd
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