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DISCUSS: Proxy ARP in Routers

Tuesday August 18, 2009
Proxy ARP is the feature of network routers that responds to ARP requests with the router's own MAC address rather than that of some other device. Do you know why routers are designed to do this and what would happen if routers didn't support proxy ARP?
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