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Bill Unruh writes:
> > Jun  1 12:10:37 pigmea pppd[14155]: local  IP address 200.82.94.132
> > Jun  1 12:10:37 pigmea pppd[14155]: remote IP address 200.3.60.3
> 
> Not surprising you cannot do proxyarp. The machines MUST be on the same
> subnet to do proxyarp.

That's not quite true.  Instead, for proxy ARP to wrok, the remote IP
address on the PPP link must be within a subnet defined by some
broadcast-type (e.g., Ethernet) interface on the local system.  The
local IP on the PPP link doesn't matter.

On top of that, given CIDR, there's just no way to look at an IP
address and determine what might be or not be in the same subnet.  You
need the subnet mask to make that call.

In any event, this is all a nit and likely has nothing to do with the
originally reported problem.

-- 
James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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