February Meeting Minutes:

Attendees:

Scott
Adrian
Ed
Gabe

Topics covered:

• I talked about setting up proxy ARP to do pseudo-bridging[1], which
  I don’t have a formal write up for yet, but will soon, and will send
  around when I do.

• I also talked about how done _wrong_, proxy ARP can wreak havoc on
  an ISP subnet that’s one big bridged ethernet segment. I spoke from
  experience. :) Beware of blindly enabling proxy ARP on an external
  ISP connected interface if it’s a bridged connection.

• We talked about alternatives to the way that I set things up, and
  neat things that can be accomplished under such a setup.

• We talked about Ralph Doncaster, and IStop.com[2].

• Also talked quickly about Rogers inability to manage SMTP servers,
  their outsourcing to Compaq/OpenWave, and how they bounce any mail
  from a rogers.com address to a rogers.com address if SMTP AUTH LOGIN
  isn’t used to send the message. This happens from both their
  internal network, and their external network. Affects mailing
  lists, and email forwarders.

• Steve stood us up for the third time in as many months. :) But he
  apologized, and will make it up to us at some point. :)

See you all next month!

Links:

[1] - Various Proxy ARP links:

http://lartc.org/HOWTO//cvs/2.4routing/output/2.4routing-16.php#ss16.3
http://www.sjdjweis.com/linux/proxyarp/
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Proxy-ARP-Subnet/

[2] - IStop.com, a local Ottawa based ISP:
http://www.istop.com

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