From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 30 02:29:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA00624 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 02:29:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (csnet.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA00615 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 02:29:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.csa (csd [132.68.32.8]) by csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) with ESMTP id MAA18105; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:27:36 +0200 Received: from localhost by csd.csa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA10963; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:27:45 +0200 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:27:45 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Terry Lambert cc: Jonathan Lemon , stt@pluto.cpe.ku.ac.th, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel modification In-Reply-To: <199710300239.TAA21118@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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), Phase V doesn't make any assumptions on MAC addresses, unless, of course, you install it with "Phase IV compatibility mode". > 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. > Nadav