rene@geveke.nl (Rene van der Hauw) (04/15/91)
Dear steve I have been thinking, What is going to happen when instead of specifing the ip address of the router, I am going to specify the broadcast address of that subnet. Because I have got two routers, both responding to proxy ARP, one of them is always going to respond. So when one router is not working anymore the proxy ARP of the other unit is going to respond. Could this be the solution? Rene van der Hauw Geveke electronics Amsterdam 31-20-5675558
"Matt Crawford" <matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu> (04/15/91)
Ack! Broadcast every non-local packet? Have both routers respond when both are up? I think a far better plan would be, in BSD Unix terms, route add default <my-ip-address> 0 So that every address is arp'ed for. One or both routers will reply, and one of the answers will go into the arp-cache. I don't know if or how you get the same effect in MSDOS. The only trouble is that no arp layer I've seen yet will time out an arp entry while it's being used frequently. If the router whose ethernet address you've cached goes down, and you don't stop trying the same non-local host, the useless arp entry will remain.