my linux does not accept redirects
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The ARP protocol finds the physical address, the IEEE station address of a particular host and talks to it using that address. If the IP address is behind a router, then the router answers the ARP request with its physical address.
Damn Cisco and their default proxy ARP settings...
While learning to use iproute2 I managed to set my local eth0 interface as the default route. Boy was I suprised to see the router's ARP reply for a network address far, far away!
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Chuck