From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 30 14:31:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA15995 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:31:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (tlambert@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA15987 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr03.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03009; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:30:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710302230.PAA03009@usr03.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Kernel modification To: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:30:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, stt@pluto.cpe.ku.ac.th, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710300610.EAA27511@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Oct 30, 97 04:10:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > #define quoting(Jonathan Lemon) > // 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. > // > // Even bridges put their own MAC address in the frame. > > Are you nuts ? Just think: How would ARP work between machines > separated by bridges ? The bridge pretends to not be there if the source and the dest are on the same side of the interface. It rememebrs this. If the source and dest are on different interfaces, it proxies and fakes the MAC address. So the short answer is "transparently and well". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.