Downtown WiFi DHCP (WAS: Re: [wplug] More on downtown WiFi (fwd))

[Brandon Poyner]

On 2/21/07, Brandon Poyner <bpoyner at gmail.com> wrote:

> That certainly is an interesting configuration.  I can see where
> they're trying to go with setting a restrictive netmask, but if you
> can't ARP the MAC address of the gateway how exactly are you supposed
> to communicate with it?  Linux won't attempt to ARP for anything
> outside of its netmask as far as I'm aware.  I wonder if there is a
> broken implementation of ethernet/TCP that happily goes along with
> that configuration.

Hmm, perhaps they're expecting you to be using proxy arp?  Are you
able to give that a try Brian?

http://www.linux.com/howtos/Wireless-HOWTO-10.shtml

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Brandon
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