Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 02:39:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Cc: stt@pluto.cpe.ku.ac.th, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel modification Message-ID: <199710300239.TAA21118@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971029161422.12013@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Oct 29, 97 04:14:22 pm
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> I can't see why you would want to re-transmit with the original MAC > address; this would cause arp lookups to fail, among other things. DECNet requires it, for one thing. If you want to implement a DECNet Phase IV (I don't rememebr about Phase V, but I think it's the same), any "bridge" or routable "tunnel" pretending to be a bridge to get traffic over a VPN (Virtual Private Net) for disparately located site *has* to spoof MAC addresses. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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