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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:<br>
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I thought that the two entities in question live in the same broadcast
domain (subnet/vlan) by requirement (just a cable between the NICs in
the original formulation).
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They do, but you have to be layer 3 aware to notice that. Exactly like
I said - if you're layer 2, you are not allowed to do this
"optimization".<br>
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In any case, this took us too far from the OP. I would be really
curious to know if iproute2 trickery can solve the problem for Daniel
or for you.
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Agreed.<br>
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Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
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