In article <20020224004542.GA1783@enfusion-group.com> you wrote: >> The magic secret of proxy ARP is that Linux will only proxy if there is >> a route to the desired IP address that does not go out the same >> interface. So, if you have netmasks set to /24 in your setup, it will >> not work. Actually it will, as long as you have host routes for the hosts on the left hand side. > Right, but I still need to have proxy_arp set to 1 for the right hand > iface? If you publish those entries, you do not need to turn auto proxy arp on. > What I really want to do is have the right hand iface respond for > static arp entries even when proxy_arp is 0. It will, if your routing is set up correctly. Otherwise you can use arpd. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html