Subject: Re: [RFC] arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:47:31 -0700

Denys Fedoryschenko <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sunday 05 July 2009 00:57:32 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> How can that possibly be a correct network configuration?
>>
>> Eric
> It is a problem to have different networks, who doesn't communicate one with 
> each other, in same ethernet segment?
>
> Does it violate anything?

The point of the internet protocol is communications between networks.

Setting up a router to route traffic in and off of a network and not
telling it about one of the networks on your ethernet segment is
at the least very peculiar.

Eric