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[Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>]

In message <9602192346.AA09394@rsm.enst-bretagne.fr>, mthiam@rennes.enst-bretag
ne.fr writes:
> Hello!
> 
> I am a post-graduate student in France and I am looking for the latest pieces
>  of information concerning IP routing in a
> IP over ATM environment implementing NHRP. In other words, ARP packets are
> sent to the default router when the target is not inside the subnet.
> I would to know how this runs in a NHRP environment (do we need to alter
> the IP protocol or not so as to not transmit the ARP packets to the
> router?). Therefore, I would get drafts or papers that talk about it because 
> I
> need this information to end up my final network project which deals with IP
> over ATM and NHRP protocol.
> 
> Thank you very much for your cooperation and hope to hear from you soon. BYE!
> !


You are clearly trying to do more with ARP than ARP was intended to
do.  Take a look at the IP over ATM framework document and pay
particular attention to section 7 and figure 4.

You need to run a routing protocol.  ARP is an address resolution
protocol, not a routing protocol.

Curtis

ps- http://engr.ans.net/atm-framework/ has the latest with some
clarified text wrt NHRP.