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- From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
- Subject: Re: ROOT/SWAP on other subnet
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.220152.29001@selway.umt.edu>
- Organization: University of Montana
- References: <1h5378INNjdb@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:01:52 GMT
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- In article <1h5378INNjdb@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
- >Is there any way to get a diskless Sun to get its boot and swap off a
- >Sun on a different subnet (bootparam itself is no problem).
- >
- >Actually, we do this all the time where the other subnet is behind a
- >cisco router. The cisco can be made to proxyarp for the remote subnet.
- >
- >The problem is the case where a Sun with two ethernet cards is acting
- >as the router. I don't see how to make the Sun proxyarp for machines on
- >its other subnet. ("arp -s ip-addr routers-ether public" is a disaster,
- >since there is apparently only one arp table for both interfaces).
- >
- >
- >---
- >Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED
- >Emory University | {rutgers,gatech}!emory!km UUCP
- >Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet NON-DOMAIN BITNET
- >Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: Voice (404) 727-7963, FAX 727-5611
- >
- I believe gated will let you do the proxy arp.
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