Re: (PM) Supernetting a pool.... (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sun, 1 Feb 1998 02:07:24 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Jeff Woods shaped the electrons to say...
>So my ROUTER has to handle my users's requests to my mail server, for
>exmaple, when the PM-3 could just as easily hand it off to ether0 directly,

No, that is what proxy-ARP is for.

>since the user's IP is in the same network as the mail server? Seems
>rather inefficient to me....

If you change the user netmask, you WILL screw up your routing. Anything
other than /32 WILL route mutliple IPs to the USER. Do you really want
to kill your ethernet routing by trying to route it all to the user
instead? I didn't think so.

-MZ

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