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	Title		: MAC Forced Forwarding: An ARP proxy method for 
			  ensuring traffic separation between hosts sharing 
			  an Ethernet access network
	Author(s)	: T. Melsen
	Filename	: draft-melsen-mac-forced-fwd-01.txt
	Pages		: 12
	Date		: 2004-2-17
	
This document describes a mechanism to ensure layer-2 separation of
LAN stations accessing an IP gateway over a shared Ethernet segment.

The mechanism - called 'MAC forced forwarding' - implements an ARP
proxy function that in effect directs all upstream traffic to the IP
gateway, also if a station is trying to obtain direct Ethernet
connectivity to another station within the same IP subnet but located
at another end-user premise.

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