Re: Can we make NM automatically handle the need for proxy arp?

[Ted Lemon <mellon fugue com>]

On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Darren Albers wrote:
> Ok I just confirmed that Windows is brain-dead in this regard, I
> slapped up a Cisco 2600 I have sitting in my lab and enabled proxy-arp
> on the directly connected interface and then setup a second interface
> (So the router has someplace to send traffic to).  So on my windows
> machine I have a default gateway set to another router but windows
> ignored that and sent my traffic for the test network to the router.
> This is brain-dead, if I specify that 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 needs to go to
> 1.1.1.1 then it should not let some device arbitrarily tell my system
> that it has a better route to that network unless that is something I
> /want/ it it do.

So you configured a valid default route on Windows, and it used a  
different route instead?   Or you configured an invalid default route  
and it didn't use it?   I'm a bit puzzled by this paragraph, because  
my experience is that Windows isn't quite as brain-dead as you're  
suggesting here.