Re: Wireless router behaviour

[John Duksta <jduksta () gmail com>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:53:01 -0700, David Gillett <gillettdavid () fhda edu> wrote:
>   The port which was connected to the wired network was one of the
> LAN switch ports, and not the WAN port.  So although we saw pings
> and proxy ARP replies from the router, it seems unlikely that these
> were NATted on behalf of some associated client.  The client whose
> footprints led us to the router was, as you'd expect in such a
> configuration, using an address from our DHCP pool and neither the
> router's nor some other private address.

I find it very odd that you saw proxy arps replies from the router if it was
connected to your network by one of the LAN switch ports. Proxy ARP
usually only happens when you have a gateway device where the clients
do not have MAC access (PPP server), but the fact that the wireless 
client that alerted you to the presence of the router was using an address 
from your DHCP pool shows that there was in fact MAC access for the client.

Odd.

-john

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