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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
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Subject: Re: I never thought of this scenario
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On 4/7/24 20:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> You are thinking of proxy ARP, perhaps?

You might think that, but even proxy ARP is traditional ARP all be it 
for remote IPs.

I was thinking more along the lines of bridged routing (brouting) and / 
or tunnels.

OpenFlow can really break traditional networking paradigms.



-- 
Grant. . . .